Heat Unit Calculator For Crops
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Two years ago FARM SHOW featured our first new electronic product -the "Field Meter", a rugged-built monitor that tells acres worked, acres per hour, field speed, etc., and also monitors shafts on planters, drills and other equipment so you can tell if they ever fail. We have now started production on a new product called the Heat Unit Calculator. It takes a temperature reading every minute and displays the current temperature, the daily low, daily average and daily high. In addition, it computes an hourly average temperature and stores all these in memory for later calculations. At any time, you can calculate the number of heat units (also called degree days) between any two specified dates. The base and transpiration temperatures are adjustable so the Heat Unit Calculator can be used for many different crops.
Temperature data is stored in memory for a year. You can buy an optional computer interface that allows all data to be loaded to a personal computer.
Heat Unit Calculator with temperature sensor and 25 ft. of cable sells for $495. You set the monitor indoors on a desk or counter with the sensor outside. (Anne-Marie Bauman, Tailwind Systems, 637 W. Whitman Dr., College Place, Wash. 99324 ph 509 529-9794)
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Heat Unit Calculator For Crops CROPS Miscellaneous 18-3-35 Two years ago FARM SHOW featured our first new electronic product -the "Field Meter", a rugged-built monitor that tells acres worked, acres per hour, field speed, etc., and also monitors shafts on planters, drills and other equipment so you can tell if they ever fail. We have now started production on a new product called the Heat Unit Calculator. It takes a temperature reading every minute and displays the current temperature, the daily low, daily average and daily high. In addition, it computes an hourly average temperature and stores all these in memory for later calculations. At any time, you can calculate the number of heat units (also called degree days) between any two specified dates. The base and transpiration temperatures are adjustable so the Heat Unit Calculator can be used for many different crops.
Temperature data is stored in memory for a year. You can buy an optional computer interface that allows all data to be loaded to a personal computer.
Heat Unit Calculator with temperature sensor and 25 ft. of cable sells for $495. You set the monitor indoors on a desk or counter with the sensor outside. (Anne-Marie Bauman, Tailwind Systems, 637 W. Whitman Dr., College Place, Wash. 99324 ph 509 529-9794)
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