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 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 […]
April 7, 2023August 17, 2024Weather Instruments MetOne Anemometer Now, on to the anemometer testing. I am currently trying to use a hardware debounce circuit (shown) and it WAS working and […]
January 4, 2023January 18, 2023Electronics, Weather Instruments 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 […]
December 16, 2022March 14, 2024Electronics, Weather Instruments 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 […]