RBRsolo³

The RBRsolo³ is a family of small single-channel, long-autonomy instruments which come in several variants:

  • RBRsolo³ D - depth

  • RBRsolo³ T - temperature

  • RBRsolo³ PAR - photosynthetically active radiation

  • RBRsolo³ rad - narrow-band light radiation

  • RBRsolo³ DO - dissolved oxygen (with the OxyGuard® DO sensor)

  • RBRsolo³ Tu - turbidity (with the Seapoint® Tu sensor)

  • RBRsolo³ PAR (LI-COR) - photosynthetically active radiation (with the LI-COR® PAR sensors, cosine or spherical)

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Fig. 2.    The RBRsolo³ shallow instruments

The RBRsolo³ PAR and RBRsolo³ rad look identical, third instrument from top.

Several configurations are also available in titanium housing for deepwater applications (| deep), designed to endure harsh conditions:

  • RBRsolo³ D | deep - depth

  • RBRsolo³ T | deep - temperature

  • RBRsolo³ PAR | deep - photosynthetically active radiation

  • RBRsolo³ rad | deep - narrow-band light radiation

  • RBRsolo³ Tu | deep - turbidity (with the Seapoint Tu sensor)

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Fig. 3.    The RBRsolo³ | deep variants

The RBRsolo³ PAR | deep and RBRsolo³ rad | deep look identical, third instrument from top.

In most cases, standard, | slow, and | fast sampling variants of the same instrument look identical, with the exception of RBRsolo³ T | deep | slow, which has an embedded thermistor:

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Fig. 4.    The RBRsolo³ T | slow with embedded thermistor

RBR offers cabled versions of the RBRsolo³ D, T, PAR, rad, DO, and PAR (LI-COR) under the brand name of "RBRcoda³". Sensor specifications are the same between the two lines of instruments.