I began looking into VPD calculations and the required hardware today in early preparation for an upcoming Adafruit Learn Guide on monitoring VPD. My initial info for this came from this PR. I felt this deviated enough from the purpose of the PR that I decided to move this discussion here.
Here are my questions so far:
- From what I can tell, the way to get canopy temperature is via IR temperature sensing. This is basically what Adafruit has for doing that. Do you think it would work if placed properly?
- The SCD-4x and the SHT45 are both mentioned in this thread. I didn't see a CO2 measurement mentioned anywhere with VPD, so I'm unclear on what that measurement adds to the situation. As well, the SHT45 has a ±1.0% accuracy for relative humidity, whereas the SCD-4x has ±6.0%. How much would that difference affect a VPD calculation?
- I intend to build a small (2'x2'x2' or smaller)