{"id":23612,"date":"2025-03-25T07:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/?p=23612"},"modified":"2025-03-31T08:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:38:53","slug":"how-do-i-zero-my-sensor-for-a-remote-data-logging-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/23612","title":{"rendered":"How do I zero my sensor for a remote data logging experiment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Go Direct devices, such as <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-acceleration-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Acceleration Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-ACC<\/nobr>), have sensor channels that might be beneficial to zero for a remote data logging experiment. When configuring a remote data logging experiment, it is possible to zero sensor channels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-very-light-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Note: <\/strong>Not all sensors can be zeroed. If a sensor channel does not support zeroing, the option to zero will not show in the sensor meter&#8217;s tools list.<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Steps to zero a sensor channel for a remote data logging experiment<\/h3>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Launch Graphical Analysis and connect your Go Direct sensor.<br \/>For detailed instructions for connecting the sensor to the Graphical Analysis app, refer to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/get-started\/go-direct\">Getting Started with Go Direct Sensors<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Click or tap a sensor meter, <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"29\" class=\"wp-image-23617\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/image.png\" alt=\"\">, to access the tool for zeroing the sensor channel.<\/li>\n<li>Choose Zero to set the current sensor reading to zero. This defines an offset that is applied to all future readings.<\/li>\n<li>Start your remote data logging experiment.<br \/>For detailed instructions for configuring and starting a remote data logging experiment, refer to the document, <a href=\"https:\/\/turbo.vernier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Vernier_Remote-Data-Logging_Basic-Procedure.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.vernier.com\">Remote Data Logging: Trial Run<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Links<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/d1zt81d93mquk0.cloudfront.net\/manuals\/graphical_analysis_user_manual_v5.8.pdf\">Graphical Analysis User Manual<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/til\/23256\/\">Remote Data Logging Troubleshooting and FAQs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Go Direct devices, such as , have sensor channels that might be beneficial to zero for a remote data logging experiment. When configuring a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612","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\/8983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}