Just looking to do some testing.
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Blawson
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Do we have a par meter locally?
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contact MxReEfEr92
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The one that the club has is pretty much useless, It has no screen and I have tried every setting on my multi meeter to try and figure it out. You are more than welcome to try it out, One thing I ask is for you to become a paid member of the club ($22). Jimmy and the little guy may be of more help then me on getting it to work.
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Don't mind the $22. I am not great with electronics. I would be useless.
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Ok you are more than welcome to pick up, now that school is im pretty busy.
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It worked fine for me....
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So... Does it work? I may have been too quick to act. I purchased one online.
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LOL, you have to remove the Cap 
But you put the meter on ohms, then multiply bya number. I'm not sure what it is, but google would tell me.....
But you put the meter on ohms, then multiply bya number. I'm not sure what it is, but google would tell me.....
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Cory when you pick up your inverts, bring it with, and I will try iton my tank.
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I did remove the cap set it to ohms and nothing...
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Let me know... I won't get mine for about a week and would like to try and test this weekend.
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If you drop it off at my house, I can look at it.
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dwolson2 wrote:LOL, you have to remove the Cap
But you put the meter on mV (DC), then multiply by a number (5). I'm not sure what it is, but google would tell me.....
FTFY
MASVC has a par meter for the club members to use (one of the many benefits of being a MASVC member)
Set the meter to mV (direct current) and attach the 2 leads from the multimeter to the red and black wire of the par meter (most multimeter leads are red and black as well so it's as easy as hooking up red to red and black to black.) Don’t worry about the third wire on the par meter.
remove the cover of the par meter and place it where you want to take a reading. The multimeter display will give a value in millivolts (mV) and all you have to do is convert that number by multiplying it by 5 which will give you PAR.
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what about the flux capacitor?
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Your right Jimmy, my memory must be getting bad. I'm not sure how to program it, but it would be kind of cool to make the arduino do the math and make a "controller" for it...
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very simple stuff, we just need to get a small 3-4 number digital display and an atmega chip and we'll be in business.
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Did we ever figure out if this worked?
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Yes it definitely works.