{"id":1948,"date":"2013-12-30T21:26:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T05:26:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-06-08T09:31:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T16:31:42","slug":"1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/1948","title":{"rendered":"Can I use a Vernier light sensors to measure PAR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vernier light sensors can not be used to measure PAR, photosynthetically active radiation. They do not have the right spectral response nor are they calibrated correctly.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to measure PAR you should consider purchasing a Vernier PAR sensor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/sensors\/par-bta\/\">https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/products\/sensors\/par-bta\/<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vernier light sensors can not be used to measure PAR, photosynthetically active radiation. They do not have the right spectral response nor are they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1616,906,1487,3071,1489,3070,729],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-light","tag-ls-bta","tag-par","tag-par-bta","tag-photosynthetic","tag-plant","tag-radiation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}