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SMRT-Y Kit Includes: 1 Controller User Interface. 2 In-Ground Soil Moisture Sensor. 3 Anodized, rust-proof screws, 1.5 (two per package) 4 Wire nuts 5 blue, 2 gray, 1 yellow. 5 Multilingual instruction manual, "Quick Start" Guide and sticker that reads: "This controller is connected to a Rain Bird Soil Moisture Sensor". Turns any controller into a smart controller. The SMRT-Y Soil Moisture Sensor Kit is an easy to install add-on to any standard irrigation system that directly links your irrigation controller to your landscapes moisture requirements. Program the controller to water every day that irrigation is allowed, and the soil moisture sensor will do the rest. As the SMRT-Y optimizes moisture at the root zone, you will enjoy a lush, healthier landscape that is less prone to fungus and shallow root growth. User Interface with LCD Readout. 1 Touchpad keys with digital LCD readout displays: 2 Automatic moisture threshold setting with increase/decrease adjustment. 3 Sensor bypass touchpad key for easy deactivation. 4 Up to two independent zones can be isolated from sensor. 5 Designed for outdoor installation. The moisture sensor works when the series of discs in the sensor expands they get wet, and to a certain size, they flip a micro switch, this interrupts the current going from the controller to the valves, whereby the controller will tell the valves to start watering in the middle of a rainstorm, if the valves do not get the memo then they don't turn ... A moisture sensor estimates the amount of water in the soil that is being tested. It works by measuring the soil's ability to conduct electricity, higher moisture means more conducting power. The reason that some look down on soil moisture meters is because of the plethora of crappy and cheap ones that don't actually work well... but not all meters are bad. I use this soil moisture sensor in my house for my potted plants, and I actually have been very pleased with it. Advanced TDT Digital Soil Moisture Sensor. 1 Sensor uses Time Domain Transmissometry (TDT) and digital signal processing to measure soil moisture content accurately and consistently. 2 Corrosion-resistant in-ground sensor made of high-grade 304 stainless steel. 3 No maintenance sensor just bury and forget. soil moisture meters are garbage!! Lift up a bone dry pot and feel what it weighs. thatll give you an idea. like he said ! ... use your fingers.... a couple inches deep and still dry its time to water! I dont water heavey. I find it better to water lightly more often (2-3 days) instead of drenching the soil. At field capacity most soils have a soil moisture tension between 0.05 and 0.33 bars. Soils classified as sandy may have field capacity tensions around 0.10 bars, while clayey soil will have field capacity at a tension around 0.33 bars. At field capacity it is relatively easy for a plant to remove water from the soil. Discussion in 'Organics' started by BillyBonnie, May 30, 2012. BillyBonnie New Member. I get so tired of trying to guess when my plants need water. eDude Well-Known Member. I was born with ten soil moister meters.. nastynate420 Active Member. soil moisture meters are garbage!! BillyBonnie New Member. Query: how does a soil moisture sensor work
A soil moisture sensor works by measuring the soil's ability to conduct electricity.

So you might as well redefine your question as How many Ships does the US navy have? IF you want to know the real answer to how many Aircraft Carriers?... you cannot redefine the question to mean something else. We have 10 Carriers. The Japanese Navy had 25 carriers of all types; 1 was laid up damaged, another beached and capsized, 20 were lost to enemy action. The French Navy, as noted above, had 1 carrier, converted to an aircraft transport in 1944. This count is for commissioned naval vessels designated as aircraft carriers only. Nimitz class aircraft carrier design. The more recent Nimitz Class carriers (CVN72-CVN76) have a displacement of 102,000t when fully loaded. They have a length of 317m and beam of 40.8m. The carrier reaches a maximum speed of over 30kt, and accommodates a complement of 3,184 personnel (with 203 officers); 2,800 aircrew (with 366 officers); and 70 flag (with 25 officers). Aircraft Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Wednesday defended his budget's call to increase military spending by complaining that the U.S. has only 10 aircraft carriers and that the U.S. Army is smaller than it was in 1945 and the U.S. Navy is smaller than it was during World War I. List of aircraft carriers in service. This is a list of aircraft carriers which are currently in service, reserve, under construction, or being rebuilt. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. The list only refers to the status of the ship, not availability or condition of an air wing. This includes helicopter carriers and amphibious assault ships, which are vessels whose primary purpose is to carry, arm, deploy, and recover aircraft. Statistically, one can take the numbers of carriers in action per month during the period and come up with a composite carrier's profile of operating numbers: Flights: 2755; action sorties 1043; combat losses: 61; combat operational losses: 26; non-combat related losses: 28; for a total of 115 aircraft lost in a 12 month period. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion)) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion)). There are 11 aircraft carriers currently in service in the U.S. fleet USS Enterprise (CVN-65): 85,600 ton unique nuclear-powered supercarrier, commissioned 25 November 1961. Navy EEO; Inclusion And Diversity; Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS) My Navy Portal; Board of Corrections for Naval Records (BCNR) Shift Colors-Navy Retiree Newsletter; Civilian Federal Careers But the U.S. has failed to plan for replenishment of America's depleted Sixth Fleet. This absence of sufficient seapower sets the stage for trouble reaching far beyond the region, raising the larger question of how the U.S. is planning future naval forces. Aircraft carriers are an instructive example. In the 2007 Defense Authorization bill, Congress wrote into law that we must not go below eleven. Since December 2012, this has been lowered to ten so that USS Enterprise could be retired before USS Ford's 2016 commissioning. Query: how many aircraft carriers usa have
The United States has currently 11 aircraft carriers in service.

Bull Markets Since 1871: Duration and Magnitude April 17, 2013 by Tobias Carlisle Butler|Philbrick|Gordillo and Associates have an interesting post called What the Bull Giveth, the Bear Taketh Away on the duration and magnitude of all bull and bear market periods in U.S. stocks since 1871. Social Surge - What's Trending. 1 Six Flags brings down Confederate flags. 2 Carl Bernstein: This is the Trump story reporters need to cover. 3 The best spot on Earth to watch the eclipse is in the sky. These are long periods of time in which stocks make little progress. Then there are cyclical bears, which can come in the middle of a long secular bear or even a secular bull. The chart below shows the three secular bears over the last ninety years. As you can see, the defining characteristic for secular bears is that stocks make no progress for long periods of time. The average bears market last 18 months and has an average of a 30% decline. The average bear market lasts about one year and two months, (The average bull market lasts about three years and seven months.) At least till obama is history. While the nominal Dow begins at 39 points in our chart, adjusting for inflation brings its real value up to 1,426 points. One thing to notice is just how long most secular market cycles are. The average length of all modern secular cycles is 194 months, and the median length is 200 months. That's a little less than 17 years -- about the amount of time needed for a new generation of investors to mature and enter the market. Historical precedent says that the current bull market can't last forever, but what might cause it to fall? photograph by bryan r. smith / afp / getty Thursday marks eight years since the low point of the last bear market on Wall Street. On March 9, 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 6,547.05. Since then, it has more than tripled. If you'd invested twenty thousand dollars in the Dow index eight years ago, it would now be worth about sixty-four thousand dollars. Secular bull gains totaled 2075% for an average of 415%. Secular bear losses totaled -329% for an average of -65%. Secular bull years total 80 versus 52 for the bears, a 60:40 ratio. This last bullet probably comes as a surprise to many people. The finance industry and media have conditioned us to view every dip as a buying opportunity. The Almanac says that the shortest bull market in the past 100 years lasted just 61 days during the summer of 1932 yet still saw the Dow bounce 94%! Those are of course the extremes, but the average bull market of the past century has lasted 755 days and delivered an 85% gain. The current bull run is now four years old and up about 120%, making it significantly above average by both measures. How do bull markets start and end? Bear markets begin at the end of one bull market and end at the start of the next bull market, the Stock Trader Almanac states, implying that a cycle change occurs any time the market retreats 20% or more. How long does a bull market last? It depends on which time period you're looking at, Holeman says, but the average bull market lasts somewhere between five to nine years. We're currently in the middle of the second-longest bull market ever. It's been nearly nine years since the prior bear market ended in March 2009. Ultimately, they can range, says Holeman. They can be as long as 13 or 14 [years], and as short as two or three. Was the March 2009 low the end of a secular bear market and the beginning of a secular bull? At this point, almost nine years later, the S&P 500 has set a series of inflation-adjusted record highs based on monthly averages of daily closes. Query: how long does the average bull market last
The average bull market lasts between five to nine years.