PME miniDOT Dissolved Oxygen Logger
Features
- Long-lasting sensor with stable calibration
- Up to 1-year battery life with user-replaceable batteries
- Also records time, date, and battery voltage
- Expedited repair and warranty service
- Lifetime technical support
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Overview
The PME miniDOT is a submersible instrument that includes an optical dissolved oxygen sensor, a temperature sensor, batteries and a micro SD memory card. Data is recorded internally with a sample interval from once per minute to once per hour and can be offloaded to a computer via USB cable.
Internal Storage
The miniDOT sensor is an optode that measures lifetime-based luminescence quenching of a thin membrane. The sensing foil contains a coating with a variable fluorescence that depends on oxygen concentration in the surrounding water. The sensor can compute dissolved oxygen concentration in mg/L and record these measurements internally. Each logger is factory-calibrated at 12 dissolved oxygen concentrations, each at 8 temperatures, for a total of 96 calibration points.
Included with miniDOT logger (Part #7450):
- miniDOT dissolved oxygen logger
Included with miniDOT logger with wiper bundle (Part #9190):
- miniDOT dissolved oxygen logger
- miniWIPER anti-fouling sensor wiper
- miniWIPER bracket
- anti-fouling copper plate (with hardware)
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