Bruce – UNIXwizardry

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 […]

During testing of a new modification I added, MOSFET power control to bring down the weather station standby current, everything was looking […]

I replaced the magnet and now it works great. Apparently, the break in the ring magnet was enough to make magnetic field […]

This One ring does not rule them all. 🙁 The connections are all good now on the angle sensor PCB but during […]

Apparently, I need to practice more on my SMT soldering skills. I connected up the new angle sensor PCB to the weather […]

Well, after screwing up the footprints for the IC’s on both PCB’s (this board AND the DS2423 rain gauge board), I soldered […]

Just received the re-worked PCBs from JLCPCB and the replaced IC pads look like they will work a lot better. While I […]

Edited footprint to extend pads I now have the updated the MLX refit board and uploaded the Gerber files to JLCPCB. I […]

Well, I blew it…again. This time with the IC footprint for the latest boards I received from JLCPCB, the 1-wire counter board […]

Back to the Kicad drawing board apparently. I inadvertently used the wrong IC outline for the MLX90316 sensor, which is an SOIC-8 […]