/challenges-projects/design-challenges/vertical-farming/b/blog/posts/automated-green-house-blog-17-2---prolonging-probe-lifeThe main problem with the probes in the soil is the degradation from electrolysis of the probe material, you can either buy a capacitive probe or a gold plated resistive probe but maybe we can use a few tricks in the software to prolong the probe lifen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/design-challenges/vertical-farming/b/blog/posts/automated-green-house-blog-17-2---prolonging-probe-lifeFri, 13 Nov 2015 20:15:10 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:57b1b2bd-5860-44fd-8ee7-ee45ca09c3b3DAB1<p>Nice update.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am very interested in seeing your soil moisture measurements over time.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It should reveal a lot of useful information about your soil mixture.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=778&AppID=120&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">