{"id":1072,"date":"2018-07-25T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2019-02-21T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T16:00:52","slug":"leakalyzer-tip-portable-shade-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/leakalyzer-tip-portable-shade-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Leakalyzer Tip: Portable Shade Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the hot summer sun getting in the way of your successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/the-leakalyzer.html\">Leakalyzer <\/a>tests? Leakalyzers perform best when their temperature remains stable throughout the duration of the test.\u00a0 When exposed to the changes in radiant heat as the sun goes in and out of the clouds, the deck plate can expand and contract\u00a0leading to\u00a0confusing readings. We recommend setting up the Leakalyzer in\u00a0a shady place whenever possible, but\u00a0Mark Spatz of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/floridaleakpatrol.com\/\">Florida Leak Patrol<\/a> came up with a smart solution to carry shade with you wherever you go!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LZ400_tip_cover-640x481.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LZ400_tip_cover-640x481.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LZ400_tip_cover-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LZ400_tip_cover-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LZ400_tip_cover.jpg 739w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark fashioned\u00a0his Leakalyzer &#8220;dog house&#8221; out of a large plastic tub\u00a0that was cut to cover the deck plate and sensor capsule when set up at the pool.\u00a0 \u00a0The sensor rod extends up through a hole in the top.\u00a0 A\u00a0bucket can be placed over this rod to protect it from sunlight or the occasional unexpected stray shower.\u00a0 One edge of the tub extends into the water to provide additional protection from water turbulence when the pool system is running.\u00a0 Mark says he doesn&#8217;t use the cover everytime he pulls out his Leakalyzer, but that it does make his tests more accurate in certain situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the hot summer sun getting in the way of your successful Leakalyzer tests? Leakalyzers perform best when their temperature remains stable throughout the duration of the test.\u00a0 When exposed to the changes in radiant heat as the sun goes in and out of the clouds, the deck plate can expand and contract\u00a0leading to\u00a0confusing readings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leaktools.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}