Changes

602 bytes removed ,  02:01, 21 December 2009
Line 55: Line 55:  
==Product Development==
 
==Product Development==
 
===Soil Moisture Sensors===
 
===Soil Moisture Sensors===
====The Series 1 C-Probe ====
  −
The Series 1 probe was built around an 8-bit peripheral interface controller (PIC) chip. Development of the firmware for the probe was sub-contracted to a local electronics engineer who received a royalty on each unit sold.
  −
  −
To match the capabilities available in Sentek's software, new features had to be made available in the addVANTAGE program. The modular nature of the program meant this could be achieved with a new module - the C-Probe Extension.
  −
  −
Although it took a few incarnations to get the probe working properly, many units are still working ten years later.
 
19

edits