Drill & Drop™
Our Drill & Drop™ probe accurately measures soil moisture, temperature and salinity*.
The probe is fully encapsulated, easy to install and can be completely buried to reduce the risk of machinery damage.
Drill & Drop™ can be used for vegetable crops, fruit and nut trees, vines, berries, research projects and landscape management.
The probe can be connected to telemetry via RS232, RS485, SDI-12 and Modbus.
*Salinity measurement capability is optional.
Drill & Drop™ probe sizes
The Drill & Drop™ probe is available in lengths from 30cm (12 inch) through to 120cm (48 inch) with sensors every 10cm or four inches.
It is also offered as a Single Point Sensor measuring 10.5cm or 4 inch for SDI-12 loggers.
Features
- Tapered shape allows for extremely fast and high-quality undisturbed installation in majority of soil types
- Ability to measure the true soil profile, NOT slurry
- Buriable to any depth
- Pre-normalised sensors with inbuilt default calibration equations
- Access soil profile data through IrriMAX Live™
- Available with moisture, salinity and temperature sensors at every 10 cm (4 inches) depth
Benefits
- Best choice for short-term use, such as the monitoring of vegetable crops, due to the fast and easy install and extraction techniques
- Reliable option for long-term use, as it can be installed and left untouched for many years
- Manage irrigations to save water, power, fertilizer and time, along with increased yields and quality
- Fast and undisturbed, slurry-free installation procedure, increasing the validity of soil moisture and salinity readings
- Combine soil moisture, salinity and temperature readings to see what’s happening in the soil profile
Drill & Drop probes consists of a probe rod with integrated electronics and associated cables. Two probe types are available RS232/RS485 or SDI-12:
- RS232 communication to a Sentek PLUS DTU
- RS485 communication to a Sentek MULTI DTU
- RS232 or RS485 to a third-party Modbus logger
- SDI-12 communications to a third-party SDI-12 logger
The Single Point Sensor is available with SDI-12 connection only, for communication to a third-party SDI-12 logger
NEW! Series III Drill & Drop probes:
- The RS232/RS485 probe is preconfigured with the firmware appropriate to the DTU to which it will be connected i.e. Sentek PLUS, Sentek MULTI, Modbus RS232 or RS485 third party loggers
- You can change the probe type (RS232 or RS485) by uploading new firmware into the probe (see manual for details)
