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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
MetOne Rain Gauge 1-Wire Retrofit
I’m currently also working a retrofit for my MetOne rain gauge using an (unfortunately, think) obsolete 1-wire device, the DS2423 counter/4K memory, […]
MetOne Windvane: Testing the MLX90316 angle sensor – Part Deux
During testing the wind vane pot replacement, I was getting some weird results. I was getting errors like NO SPI DEVICE FOUND, […]
MetOne Windvane: Testing the MLX90316 angle sensor
Output (in degrees) from WindSubsystemTest code using a 10′ ethernet cable. Connection is problematic, but it does work showing that SPI signals […]
MetOne Windvane: Remedying the broken “precision” sensor problem
As I mentioned in the page for my Weather Station project, the special “precision” potentiometer somehow was reading OPEN…no resistance measured at […]