Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Do not buy Solinst monitoring equipment...

if you desire reliability and expect fair treatment by the Canadian groundwater and surface water instrumentation company. Two of six loggers I had deployed in the field have failed during a long-term aquifer monitoring project and considerable data may have been lost.

And get this: they offer a whopping 2.5% educational discount on orders over $1,000.00 which likely wouldn't even cover international shipping.

They have competitors. Use them.

2 comments:

  1. What model logger were you using? Good thing this didn't involve legal work, or did it?

    DR from JC Consultants

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  2. The loggers were the very expensive LTC model(older black model.) They were unreadable after only a little more than two years in the field, recording only twice daily. They've been sent back to the company for possible data retrieval.

    No, this was not a study for any legal purposes, but who knows how the data could be used for other than research purposes?

    The fair thing to do would be to replace them at cost, rather than paying full price with the insulting 2.5% ed discount.

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