Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Field Lab Rain Gauge

Are you a true off-gridder? Here is a test. My "rain gauge" has 150 gallons of rainwater in it after the last 24 hours. This was caught off a roof surface that is 352 square feet. How much rain actually fell? 80,86,63,?,B
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8 comments:

  1. HachitaJune 11, 2019 at 5:39 PM

    1.463 inches

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  2. HachitaJune 11, 2019 at 5:52 PM

    Make that 0.684 inches. I'm a false off-gridder. Got my reciprocals backwards.

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  3. AlJune 11, 2019 at 6:21 PM

    What's the slope of the roof?

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  4. Margery BilldJune 11, 2019 at 6:47 PM

    1/2 inch?

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  5. remmijJune 11, 2019 at 6:55 PM

    tanks are 275ga. capacity… looks just over half full + ~13ga.
    visually would guess there was ~ 137.5ga > ~1,141lbs on the pallet… 150 = 1,251lbs.…
    rounded - government math:
    ~.67"… if the tank was dry to start with…

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  6. ETexJune 11, 2019 at 6:57 PM

    About 7.45

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  7. John WellsJune 11, 2019 at 7:06 PM

    Hachita wins...on his second calculation.

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  8. Margery BilldJune 11, 2019 at 9:10 PM

    I was in the ball park. Good guess Marge. :-)

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