A common use of the heater is to activate once per day, just before recording begins for the evening.
Procedure
- When editing a Setting Profile, specify a Heater On Period, in seconds, and set Heater Off Period to a duration that is longer than the total recording period.
- If your Setting Profile includes the setting to disable monitoring when the heater is on, ensure your Schedule Profile starts early enough that the Heater On Period is finished by the time you need to begin recording.
Nightly Recording Schedule with a Single Heater On Period
If you do not need to clear the microphone of moisture periodically throughout a night, or if the heater introduces too much noise into your recordings, you may choose to enable the heater only once per day, before your nightly recording period begins.
In this example, we will assume that the heater introduces significant noise into our recordings. Therefore, we will disable monitoring while the heater is on:
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Triggered Recording with Bat Call Analysis | Enabled |
| Pause Triggering When Heater Is On | Enabled |
Say we want to enable the heater for 30 minutes, then begin monitoring at sunset. We will set the heater to run once for 30 minutes (1800 seconds):
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Heater On Period (s) | 1800 |
Say that the length of a night at the deployment location varies between 5 and 12 hours, depending on the date. We will set the Heater Off Period to a value longer than 12 hours, or 43,200 seconds:
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Heater Off Period (s) | 45000 |
We will begin our schedule 30 minutes before sunset. That way, our heating period will be finished at sunset, and the SMART will begin monitoring:
Start: Sunset - 00:30
Duty: Always
End: Sunrise + 00:00