====== OTT Pluvio 2 ======
//Mentor: S. Schnitt//

===== Principle =====
The OTT Pluvio 2 is a precipitation gauge basing on a weighing measurement principle. It detects both liquid and solid precipitation by weighing the bucket content. The following values are recorded:
  * intensity
  * accumulated intensity
  * bucket filling level
  * temperature load cell
===== Instrument =====
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Current setup at [[http://www.fz-juelich.de/|Research Center Jülich]] on the roof of IEK-8:  [[http://www.ott.com/de-de/produkte/meteorologie/ott-pluvio2-l-regenmesser-niederschlagsmesser/|Pluvio 2]] .

===== Data =====
  * [[http://atmos.meteo.uni-koeln.de/~hatpro/dataBrowser/dataBrowser2.html?site=JOYCE&date=-1&UpperLeft=Parsivel-Pluvio-MRR_precipitation-rate&UpperRight=Parsivel-Pluvio-MRR_Accumulated_Precipitation|quicklook archive]]

   
===== History ====
^  Period  ^  Place  ^  Project  ^
| 06/2014 - today | [[http://www.fz-juelich.de/|Research Center Jülich]], Germany | [[http://www.tr32.de|TR32]] |

===== Specifications =====
^  Parameter  ^  Specification  ^ 
| Orifice opening | 200 cm² |
| Recordable precipitation amount | 1500 mm |
| Rain rate Minimal intensity  | 12 mm/h  |
| Rain rate Maximal intensity | 1800 mm/h  |
| Accuracy | ±5 % |
| Rain rate resolution  | 0.6 mm/h  |
| Prod. Temporal Resolution | 60 s  |
| Dimensions (diameter x H) | 450mm x 670mm |
| Weigth (empty) | approx 15kg |
| Power supply | 9 ... 28V DC, reverse polarity protection |
| Current drawn |Electronics 15 mA at 12 V DC / Heating 2.2 A; 24 V DC |