Campbell Scientific Sentek EnviroSCAN Access Tube Installation Guide - Manual (Page 3)

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About this manual 1
Document Conventions 1
Introduction 2
Site Selection 3
What is site selection? 3
Relationship between macro and micro zones in the field 3
Important factors you should know that affect crop water use 4
A general view of macro scale zone selection 7
Micro scale zone selection 10
Micro zone selection guidelines 10
Installing access tubes for Diviner 2000, EnviroSCAN and EnviroSMART probes 13
Introduction 13
Safety 14
Good versus poor installation 14
Standard manual installation method 16
Introduction 16
Items required for standard manual installations 16
Installation procedure 18
Troubleshooting the standard manual installation method 30
Slurry Installation Method 35
What are the different slurry methods? 35
Installation procedure 38
Removing Access Tubes 45
Items required for access tube removal for EnviroSCAN, EnviroSMART and Diviner 2000 45
Removing EnviroSCAN, EnviroSMART and Diviner 2000 Access Tubes 45
Toolkit Items 48
Sentek access tube items 48
Standard Access Tube Installation Kit Complete (Part No. 07000) 49
Slurry Access Tube Installation Kit (Part No. 07250) 51
Optional Tools for Access Tube Installation 52
Recommended Reading 54