Gear: Thermocouple supports

1m equilateral triangles to hold FeatherFlame thermocouple sensors.

FeatherFlame is a low-cost, DIY Arduino-based datalogging system for recording wildland fire flame temperatures in agris – in the field. Hardware and software for the datalogger and thermocouple sensors are described in this blog post.

This post gives greater detail into how the thermocouples were positioned in the field, and offers commentary on how users might adapt the system to their own projects.

Original design

As described in the recent FeatherFlame paper, the original sampling design was a series of hierarchical equilateral triangles: 1m and 10m nested within a 100m plot:

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