A hive scale was demonstrated at the recent Apimondia congress help in Durban. The Exhibitor was Mario Schehle from Pretoria. It seems to work using a cell...
Lear, Eddy(ENL)
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Dec 10, 2001 7:21 am
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... And also, at Apimondia Antwerpen, a hive scale was presented, called Zeidler-Memo-Waage (see http://members.vol.at/carbonare/Zeidlerwaage.htm for circuitry...
... Now this is getting interesting. I have been working a similar project on paper for a few weeks. Using a cell phone is one of the solutions I came up with....
... Some providers in Canada allow plan sharing that combines minutes of several phones on one account. The cost is about $10 to $20/ month to keep each phone...
... Well, the size of apiaries is somewhat different here in DK. A guesstimate is that the average bee yard here contains about ten hives, a large one 25, ...
... planned (5 active this year), the yearly cost translates to a fair amount of money, namely14 x 54 = 756 USD each year. <<< A reasonable cost, if fuel,...
... need, is ... This should also preclude using this setup for a commercial operation....
Lipscomb, Al
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Dec 10, 2001 5:41 pm
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... Nice point. ... Not in Denmark - they evidently caught on to that and now there is no relation between the number of rings you hear and the actual number...
the u of f in gainesville did thissome time ago (years) the only problem is they need continous power to stay up or they will be tared and you will only see...
Hi People,
I think it is quite universal that ham radio is for non-commercial use only. One would have to consider the costs of going to the apiary to check in...
... some cheap weighing cells, or will we have to mess with strain gauges ourselves ?<<< An oscillator -- audio or RF -- can be varied by varying capacitance. ...
... I can hardly imagine traveling several hundred kilometers to reach an apiary, but then distances in my country are small. I am considered somewhat mad, as...
... I can see the merit of the idea, but wouldn't it be susceptible to variations in humidity and atmospheric pressure ? As for transmitting the tones, I would...
Hi All How about two sheets of plywood the same size as a hive, separated by four springs (one each corner) then a coil in the centre of the lower sheet, with ...
... I like the simplicity of the idea. Certainly much less susceptible to variations in humidity than Allens capacitance plates. Determining the frequency is...
is it at all possible to drop my email address from this list? am getting numerous emails and do not know how to stop it! thanks, frank fox ... I can see the...
Frank Fox
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Dec 11, 2001 5:50 pm
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With reference to recent postings about data logging in a hive: I have often mused over such things and often thought what you need is a smart queen excluder....
Graham & Annie Law
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Dec 11, 2001 9:34 pm
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I have been reading with interest the suggestions for weighing suppers and this last one sparked an idea. I have a background in hydraulics and it seems that...
... Nick Wallingford described a similar solution in BEE-L in 1996 (BEE-L message 011244). To get a drawing of the setup I include here an excerpt from Nick's...
... By measuring resistance across a set of electrodes in the hose. Less resistance <=> more wet electrode Ping. best regards / venlig hilsen P.H. Rankin...
... I think this is a Very Good Idea... simple, and potentially quite cheap - inexpensive pressure transducers are widely available, though the cheap ones tend...
Martin Hall
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Dec 12, 2001 11:54 am
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... k = PVT Temperature is definitely a factor. ... With regards to weight/pressure, Agreed. Measuring the temperature and Apidictor functions using the...
... Not really, if all data was digitized and we used, e.g. I2C or RS-485, a simple four stranded cable will suffice. ... No need for that, as the Apidictor is...
As a friend and colleague of the late Eddie Woods, I am gratified to see that Ping is au fait with the Apidictor. Do you need any more information? What do you...
Rex Boys
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Dec 12, 2001 4:40 pm
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... It could become an important tool for beekeepers (especially commercial) throughout the world, if coupled with telemetry functions ... No, thank you. I...
Thanks Ping. It is almost like that. The sound is generated in the spiracles but is synchronised with the wings via the nervous system. I think the...
Rex Boys
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Dec 12, 2001 6:15 pm
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... I disagree I'm afraid, I can't imagine anything more inconvenient than having to wire up an apiary where wild animals are plentiful, moving sites is ...
... Which is indeed what thought I had proposed. What I want to do, is to integrate each output and feed the resulting level to an A/D for conversion. ... ...
