“WATTS CURRENT” TECHNICAL BULLETIN
Issue 09
Summer 2016
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You can save the setting by pressing the yellow 2nd button to enter 2nd mode and then pressing
the DISTANCE button.
You are now ready to take a soil resistivity measurement. To do this, push the START/STOP button
and hold it down for at least two seconds. After a few moments, the resistivity reading appears,
displayed in ohm-meters. The resistance of the soil between the two potential electrodes is also
displayed, in ohms.
To save the measurement in the instrument’s memory, press the MEM button twice. This saves
the reading, along with the date and time the reading was taken. This stored record can later be
displayed on the instrument’s screen, and downloaded to a computer using DataView
®
for further
analysis.
This concludes our quick explanation of how to perform a Wenner soil resistivity measurement with
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