Category: Sun Light
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A Solar Radiation Study: Comparing Daily Light Integral Across Six Locations
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Growing orchids in Salem, OR, is not the same as growing in Pasadena, CA, where I started growing orchids in the 1960s. I had not given much thought about the difference in sunlight and now see that I should have. I specified my Salem greenhouse to have a 50% tinted polycarbonate roof thinking I…
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Visual Diff Of Printed Circuit Boards
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A light meter project that measures sunlight in a similar way that a rain gauge measure rainfall caught my interest. I’ve been trying to measure how much sunlight my orchids receive in the greenhouse during low sun months in Salem, OR. The project is a paper published in <em>Electronics</em> titled “<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/14/11/2225">Open-Source Photosynthetically Active…