particle-monitoring
particle-monitoring


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jefffalk "After reviewing these posts it became apparent that there are two questions here. One is about "eliminating" humidity, possibly by mechanical means..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I'll connect with Hank on his Dylos-- we'll see what he's doing. there are a million ways to do this that have already been done-- so yeah, we sh..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
jefffalk "Hank Boschen's Dylos monitoring system in Chippewa Falls records readings from a Dylos every 10 minutes and posts to a website. It also includes we..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
DavidMack "sorry for the late reply but as you probably discovered as the air sample relative humidity increases, the moisture increasingly interferes with th..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "@donblair-- the author doesn't seem to understand the terminology in use. The conclusions are based on a misunderstanding of what PM2.5 actually m..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Jdahlen "Yes, we're hoping we can get the Ethernet and USB connection to work for the Dusttrak. As for the Dylos, the only information we are able to take o..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
donblair "Did you see the article AmySoyka posted about the Dylos? http://publiclab.org/notes/Schroyer/06-26-2014/broadcast-dust-readings-from-a-smartphone#c..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
chrisbartley "Let me know if you need help with data conversion and/or uploading. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Oh Ethernet! Cool that probably isn't too hard to talk to but a computer of some sort will be needed. Serial is great! We can probably get it to t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Jdahlen "We usually just record the data right after our 24-hour sampling, but the Tech team at UWEC is helping us figure out how to retrieve our continuous..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "How does data come off? USB? Serial? There's got to be something " | Read more » over 10 years ago
Jdahlen "Sorry for the late reply, but the Dusttraks and Dylos, to my knowledge, do not have sensor out-ports. If I would be able to see what the connector ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "yes, they are also optical, like the Dustduino and Speck, but they use lasers instead of focused LEDs. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
warren "Hi, thanks for the post -- are the Dusttrak & Dylos optical devices, like the one the DustDuino project's using? http://publiclab.org/tag/dustd..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Also, I noticed your two Dusttrack monitors you're using had different air intakes (pic below). is the cyclone really important? would it improve ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Cool! Does the dusttrack or dylos have a sensor-out port? I'm thinking we could hook it up to another data logger and collect humidity data on t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "you can always try Fluxtream, although I don't know how you get the data in there on windows. actually I do-- make Don do it! " | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "They sure are. Excel opened the ods file without too much trouble, and the timestamps are right there. I was just curious to look at the data. Don ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "do you want me to make an .xls file from the .odf file? i'm not sure the date translation will work, but the dates are int he odf I made. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "I couldn't get Excel to parse the time stamps either. I averaged every 60 particle counts, so I assume I got a number for every minute. Here is a g..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "Thanks to Bea at CMU CREATELab for the blog cross-post ! My followup post on moving Speck data into Fluxtream to visualize data. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
amysoyka "Thanks for sharing the know-how. Directional scanning, eh? I shall have to make a query to a few people I know about that one. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
cindy_excites "Thanks for this Mat! Let us know how your scanners testing goes. It might be something interesting for people here in London - air pollution is a b..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
mathew "I got some big (4"x8") sheets from american science and surplus. I was going to see what happens when I put some silica dust down on a flatbed wit..." | Read more » over 10 years ago