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Description of solar radiation measurement
Solar radiation sensor on top of roof
Solar radiation sensor CMP3
placed on top of roof		 The global solar radiation measurement is performed
using a pyranometer CMP3 manufactured by KIPP & ZONEN.
This is a second class device according to WMO and ISO 9060.
A calibrated preamplifier made by ThiesClima conditions
the output voltage of the 64 thermocouples.
An embedded system NetDCU8 of F&S Elektronik Systeme
running Linux performs sampling and scaling of solar radiation.
Starting with the morning twilight until end of evening twilight
every 5 minutes solar radiation data is uploaded to this
internet server.

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