I have heard this as well.
Every time I start asking pointed questions the sales people stop talking to me though.
If you manage to make it work there’s definitely a place for them, even at $50k.
Especially when I’m about 98% they can be had for substantially less than that if one knows where to look.
A good point. I designed our machines so that they could be run manually in a pinch. Every valve was hooked to a three-way switch that allowed it to be run automatically, be disconnected, or be run manually.
I also designed them so that I could change key parameters like time while the program was running, so I could add or subtract based on what I was observing.
what about making an API for the cannabinoid sensors that have already been made?
You tried one that works?
Care to share which?!?
If I ever find one that actually does what it’s supposed to do, I’d be more than happy to do so.
Hell, if someone gets me one that actually works, I’d write and open source an API/control module to connect with it (presuming that’s possible).
The arometrix has been pretty conclusively proven to not see cannabinoids. I’ve spent well over $10k on their gear and something in the range of hundreds of hours with no success actually seeing cannabinoids.
To my knowledge, the only tool that is presently available that actually can see/track cannabinoids in an online manner is a NIR sensor. And they’re fuckin expensive.
Everything else uses something else as a proxy for cannabinoids, which is fine in some situations, but not in others.
Have not. I generally sacrifice yield for quality. I honestly don’t understand the hype around low temps. Ive made on par live resin by hot gassing the tube and running through a small bed of pH 8 bentonite
What you using as a detector?!?
I’d like to know more too sounds neato!
Thank you.
Memory lapse rather than lack of reading…
raspi/arduino with uv vis nir sensor
we used ir and a yellow approximately saturated butane color led
shine led through a small flat sight glass to sensor on opposite and seal ambient light out
graph for instant saturation visualization
used after your material column you can tell when it’s done
spectroscopy is the buzzword