{"id":5874,"date":"2018-01-09T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/?p=5874"},"modified":"2018-01-12T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T23:54:42","slug":"the-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/the-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tool!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two important components arrived today.\u00a0 One was the 3\/4&#8243; -14 NPS die I needed to couple the sensor to standard 3\/4&#8243; PVC or steel pipe.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5875\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_0850-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>$50 for this thing and it took 5 minutes to modify a threaded PVC fitting to fit perfectly with the sensor.\u00a0 Worth the price knowing that I can now create a water tight connection to the sensor. (and the $50 came from generous contributions to the site!)<\/p>\n<p>The other component is a 100 ft stretch of direct bury CAT5 Ethernet cable that I will be using to connect to the sensor when I move it outside and mount it to the snow pole.<\/p>\n<p>The other big accomplishment of the day is that I believe I have completed all the programming needed to incorporate the snow measurements into the existing weather system.\u00a0 The first incarnation is going to be a bit kludgey, and may not even work at first but I&#8217;m at the point that I can start testing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of testing&#8230; I am going to wait until after the current storm system passes and will hopefully have things running before the next system comes in early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two important components arrived today.\u00a0 One was the 3\/4&#8243; -14 NPS die I needed to couple the sensor to standard 3\/4&#8243; PVC or steel pipe. $50 for this thing and it took 5 minutes to modify a threaded PVC fitting &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/the-tool\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-snow-depth-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5876,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5874\/revisions\/5876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigtreestech.com\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}