Table 1 Comparative assessment of the time taken to achieve various goals
Activity | Time taken (minutes) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Potter Tower best case Calibration | Potter Tower worst case Calibration | Track Sprayer check calibration | Track Sprayer full Calibration | ||
Set-up for calibration stage 1 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
PT calibration | Calibration stage 1: centralisation of the Potter Tower (samplers < 10% of the mean weight) | 20 | 90 | N/A | N/A |
Calibration stage 2: volume required for the desired spray weight | 20 | 20 | N/A | N/A | |
TS calibration | Calibration TS—3 reps carried out at 0.45 m/s for the full calibration 15 min to check settings | N/A | N/A | 15 | 90 |
Time to spray | 20 | 20 | 10 | 10 | |
Time taken for fluorometric analysis | 60 | 60 | 60 | 60 | |
Time to clean | 60 | 60 | 75 | 75 | |
Total | 190 | 260 | 170 | 245 | |