{"id":3222,"date":"2015-01-15T16:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T00:54:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T22:55:00","slug":"3222","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3222","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between a regular Dissolved Oxygen Probe and the Optical DO Probe? Which one should I buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only disadvantage of the <a href=\"\/product\/vernier-optical-do-probe\/\">Vernier Optical DO Probe<\/a> (<nobr>ODO-BTA<\/nobr>) is that it costs more. It is both easier to use and more accurate than the older <a href=\"\/product\/dissolved-oxygen-probe\/\">Dissolved Oxygen Probe<\/a> (<nobr>DO-BTA<\/nobr>). The chart below shows a feature comparison.<\/p>\n<table class=\"table-generic sensor-comparison\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Feature<\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\"><b>Optical DO Probe<\/b><\/th>\n<th class=\"text-center\"><b>Dissolved Oxygen Probe<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No calibration required<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No stirring required<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No warm-up time<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No electrode filling solution<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Automatic pressure compensation<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Automatic temperature compensation<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Measure in mg\/L<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Measure in % saturation<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Compatible with LabQuest interfaces (all models)<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Compatible with Go!Link<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Order Code<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">ODO-BTA<\/td>\n<td class=\"text-center\">DO-BTA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only disadvantage of the is that it costs more. It is both easier to use and more accurate than the older . The chart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11044,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5437,278,1798,5438,5439],"class_list":["post-3222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-compare-comparison-recommend","tag-do-bta","tag-odo-bta","tag-recommended","tag-vs-vs-versus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222","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\/11044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}