TRIME
®
-PICO T3/IPH44 IPH50 Version 2_0
2017-05-30
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Basic Calibration with the Calibration Set
11.1
What is a basic calibration?
Basic calibration serves to compensate the cable length and tolerances of the probe me-
chanics (thickness of the rod coating, rod length, etc.). After two measurements, one in
dry and one in water- saturated glass beads, the calibration data is calculated and stored
in the TRIME sensor.
Every TRIME-PICO IPH sensor must be calibrated before it can supply proper measure-
ment results. Basic calibration is carried out by IMKO in the factory prior to shipment.
11.2
What are the benefits of the calibration set for the user?
With the calibration set you can easily carry out basic calibration of your TRIME sensor
yourself.
If defective probe rods must be changed, you can perform the required basic cali-
bration yourself.
The calibration set cannot be used for establishing a material (soil) specific calibration. For
this purpose a measurement dataset must be created for the specific material. The com-
plementary calibration program
TRIME-Tool is required to calculate the calibration data for
this dataset and to download it to the TRIME-PICO-Probe.
11.2.1
Calibration set for TRIME probes
For basic calibration of TRIME probes.
- 2 x boxes (7 litres.)
- 22kg glass beads
Item no.: 305017
11.3
How to perform basic calibration?
11.3.1
Preparation of the glass beads
The glass beads, supplied with the calibration set, have to be prepared first:
