Years ago well before 911 we built a bunch of long term environment data
loggers that were primarily designed to be dropped into the Canadian
arctic and picked up a year later to have information read out. These
data loggers were packaged in 3 inch plastic sewer pipe with an screw
cap on one end and a domed end cap at the other. They were about a foot
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One of them was sent to Peru to instrument a tree of national
importance. A year or so later it was returned our customer and then to
Byte Craft to have the data dumped out. We knew that it caused a stir on
its return requiring diplomatic intervention (Think pipe bomb) The event
driven software was started before it left and was still running when it
was returned to us. One of the sensors was light levels. On the way down
the case was opened for a few seconds and then closed.

The return was more interesting. The case was opened for a few seconds
and then closed for about 30 minutes. It was then opened for about an
hour and a half with various light levels suggesting customs examiners
at work.  =20

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Regards,


Walter..
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Walter Banks
Byte Craft Limited
http://www.bytecraft.com
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