October 1, 2024October 1, 2024Internet of Things, Weather Instruments Well, another delay… This time, it’s WiFi range; I was trying to get voltage measurements from roof-mounted solar cells via a test rig in my […]
September 17, 2024September 18, 2024Weather Instruments My 1-Wire retrofit for the rain gauge works now… It works now that I resoldered the pin on the BAT54S diode (pointed to with pencil), so the backup battery actually connects […]
September 4, 2024September 5, 2024Uncategorized Rain gauge retrofit ALMOST done…but.. So here is a picture of my ALMOST finished rain gauge 1-wire counter refit. It works great EXCEPT the coin cell is […]
August 27, 2024August 27, 2024Programming, Weather Instruments Another Perplexing Temporary Issue and Delay During testing of a new modification I added, MOSFET power control to bring down the weather station standby current, everything was looking […]
June 26, 2024June 26, 2024Electronics, Weather Instruments Fixed the “magnet too weak” issue with angle sensor I replaced the magnet and now it works great. Apparently, the break in the ring magnet was enough to make magnetic field […]
May 28, 2024May 30, 2024Electronics, Uncategorized, Weather Instruments Success with the SMT soldering, but now another issue… This One ring does not rule them all. 🙁 The connections are all good now on the angle sensor PCB but during […]
May 25, 2024August 17, 2024Electronics, Uncategorized Guess I still need SMT soldering practice :-( Apparently, I need to practice more on my SMT soldering skills. I connected up the new angle sensor PCB to the weather […]
May 22, 2024May 23, 2024Electronics, KiCAD, Uncategorized, Weather Instruments MetOne Anemometer Fix… Finally! Well, after screwing up the footprints for the IC’s on both PCB’s (this board AND the DS2423 rain gauge board), I soldered […]
March 27, 2024March 27, 2024Electronics, KiCAD, Weather Instruments Reworked PCBs arrived from JLCPCB! Just received the re-worked PCBs from JLCPCB and the replaced IC pads look like they will work a lot better. While I […]
March 9, 2024March 26, 2024Electronics, KiCAD Now Rev 2 of the PCBs is in the works at JLCPCB Edited footprint to extend pads I now have the updated the MLX refit board and uploaded the Gerber files to JLCPCB. I […]