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 […]
February 6, 2024March 20, 2024KiCAD Maybe I should have checked the IC pads :-( Well, I blew it…again. This time with the IC footprint for the latest boards I received from JLCPCB, the 1-wire counter board […]
February 3, 2024August 27, 2024KiCAD MetOne Windvane: Well, so much for my EDA skills… Back to the Kicad drawing board apparently. I inadvertently used the wrong IC outline for the MLX90316 sensor, which is an SOIC-8 […]
January 6, 2024March 20, 2024KiCAD Another JLCPCB order sent off today I had such good luck last time with my anemometer retrofit PCB with JLCPCB so this time I sent off another order […]
October 19, 2023March 20, 2024KiCAD MetOne Windvane: My First PCB with JLCPCB This has indeed taken a while. Regrettably, I haven’t been able to devote a lot of time to this project during the […]