Calculators FAQs
Quick answers to the questions that come up most. The chapter articles go deeper.
FAQs
No. The calculators work without one, in the app and at sapspyapp.com/calculators.
Yes. Draw-off temperature fetches your elevation and the weather when you have a signal and keeps them.
Each calculator cites its source under the answer, most often a page of the North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual, 3rd edition, and opens the manual to that page.
Yes. Units are at the bottom of the Calculators page: US or metric. Tubing sizes stay in inches.
The density you finish syrup at, 66.0 or 66.9 Brix. It sets the yield, hydrometer and draw-off calculators, and the cost of finishing heavy.
Tap the star on a calculator and it waits at the top of the Calculators page.
Water boils at a different temperature as the barometric pressure changes, and draw-off is 7.1 °F above that. A front can move it a few tenths of a degree.
Tap Ask for a change on the app's home screen and say which. It goes straight onto the roadmap.
Have a question this doesn't answer? Email info@sapspy.com or call 920-809-4811 — we're producers too.
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