category:test-limits
category:test-limits


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pdhixenbaugh "How did you make the figures you used in this research note? They are really well done. " | Read more » about 8 years ago
mathew "That's a good point about the instructions. if they were teased out into the different rig designs and each set of instructions stuck to one desig..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
cfastie "Maybe if I designate one type (1/4" ID) for use with the dowels and the other (5/16" ID) for use with the tubing that would be easier to follow? Wh..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
mathew "most of the parts in the kit are duplicates, as are most of the assembly tasks. Do you think more careful bagging of the tube clamps would help? I..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
mathew "Great notes, Chris! Thanks for the specific instruction and design feedback. I'm going to have to dig in to some of these in more depth. I love the..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
ranon "This is awesome, Chris! Thanks for the great feedback! It seems I missed the nylon washers for the vinyl tube clamp for the silly putty mechanism...." | Read more » about 8 years ago
liz "This is amazing documentation Chris!!!! " | Read more » about 8 years ago
ggallant "D5 appears to connect the INT/SQW on the RTC to PD5 on the CPU. I would be very interested in how one uses the feature. I'm assuming that it requir..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "The RTC can be set to shutdown and wake the AT328P, it just uses another pin that could be used for a sensor. @donblair left an exposed pin availa..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
ggallant "Chris, I really don't know the actual time but assuming 800usec (nice for the math) to sleep and wake up it would be 800 / 8,000,000 or 0.01% whi..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "George that's a good point. Although the real time clock is running all the time, it is not smart enough to do something as complicated as setting ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
ggallant "I think 8 seconds is the "maximum" interval with a 16MHz crystal. You wake up every 8 seconds and can go back to sleep if there is no work to be do..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Don thinks that eight seconds might be the minimum interval during which the system can be put into deep sleep. So all the sleep stuff happens in m..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
ddileona "Cool! One question: I thought I read in the riffle documentation that you could only log in multiples of 8 seconds. That seemed liked a weird mult..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
cfastie "Hi Gretchen, I also wondered whether the change in logging frequency was caused by the Riffle dropping below 0°C. There is more about that possibi..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
gretchengehrke "Interesting! At first I was wondering if the change in time-step occurred after the Riffle reached 0 deg-C, but then when I looked at your data tab..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
donblair "Hi Chris! This is fantastic research. So many interesting questions coming up already via your testing. Thank you. Riffleman! These rechargeabl..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "I'm wondering if it just has to do with the power switch setting. it should be on "USB/Lith" for programming. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "I wonder about the erratic battery readings. fascinating. Chris-- which sensors do you want to attach? perhaps we can find an arduino tutorial th..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
straylight "thanks ygzstc, that makes sense. I think that the approximation that relative intensity measured from the scope can be used in place of the log rel..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
ygzstc "Yes the Beer-Lambert Law is based on -log(I/Io) but it's applicable for a single wavelength value. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer%E2%80%93Lamb..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "It's odd -- I see the graphs. Straylight, can you contact web@publiclab.org so we can figure out what's going on there? " | Read more » over 8 years ago
straylight "Thanks for the question. My apologies that all of the graphs appear to have vanished (they have for me). Not sure why, maybe a hosting issue. Anyw..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
anjohn12 "Quick question, I'm trying to do something similar for a school project. Shouldn't the absorbance of the sample be the negative log of the percent ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago