It’s Summer. A good excuse to get a new radiation shield. Earlier this month I received a new model from SIAP+MICROS: the SMarT CELLino. As the linked article mentions, the shield is created as a collaboration between the Italian company and Marcellino Salvador. That explains the name of the product. Most of it anyway. 🙂…
Category: Radiation shields
Trying out a Vaisala DTR504
I’ve pretty much settled on my current radiation shield setup. Based on personal research alongside that of others, I do not think I will find an affordable radiation shield that can outperform the Barani MeteoShield Pro. Whenever I have doubts about radiation errors, the results produced by sensors inside my actively ventilated Apogee TS-100 will…
Temperature sensor responsiveness (part 2)
In February I wrote a post about the responsiveness of the temperature sensors I am using. One caveat I noted then, was that I was comparing SHT35 sensors with PT100 sensors while the latter were actively ventilated and the first were not. In the mean time I made a few changes to my setup. Most…
Apogee TS-100 first impressions
I was losing the last light and had to get a flash light while connecting the last wires Tuesday evening (August 17th), but I have the TS-100 up and running. Without battery backup for now. I will fix that later. Adding this new shield to my setup has triggered a whole series of new tests…