{"id":3775,"date":"2018-10-01T15:07:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-09-12T10:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:54:22","slug":"3775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3775","title":{"rendered":"Is it OK to use Go Wireless or Go Direct sensors in a vacuum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is not recommended that these products be used in a vacuum or very low pressure environment such as that created by a classroom-grade vacuum pump and bell jar. This could damage the Li-Po battery pouch inside the unit.<\/p>\n<p>Other products with batteries which may be damaged by vacuum:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/product-category\/?category=sensors&amp;term_product_family=go-direct&amp;page_num=1\">Go Direct Sensors<\/a>, such as <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-gas-pressure-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Gas Pressure Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-GP<\/nobr>) and <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-temperature-probe\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Temperature Probe<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-TMP<\/nobr>)<br \/>\nGo Wireless sensors, such as Go Wireless Temp and Go Wireless pH<br \/>\nGo Wireless Link<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/labquest-3\/\">LabQuest 3<\/a> (<nobr>LABQ3<\/nobr>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/labquest-2\/\">LabQuest 2<\/a> (<nobr>LABQ2<\/nobr>)<br \/>\nOriginal LabQuest<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/product\/labquest-stream\/\">LabQuest Stream<\/a> (<nobr>LQ-STREAM<\/nobr>)<\/p>\n<p>This said, we know that some customers have successfully sent a LabQuest to the edge of space as part of a weather balloon payload. Some customers have successfully used Go Direct products in glove boxes. The decision to use our equipment in this fashion is at the customer&#8217;s own risk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/til\/2191\/\">Can I use Vernier equipment in a weather balloon?<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not recommended that these products be used in a vacuum or very low pressure environment such as that created by a classroom-grade vacuum&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6374,3886,6373,3183,3190,6372,6371],"class_list":["post-3775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evacuated","tag-go-wireless","tag-low-pressure","tag-space","tag-temp","tag-vaccum","tag-vacum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775","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\/11015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}