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 […]
June 20, 2023September 4, 2024Electronics, KiCAD 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, […]
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 21, 2023March 20, 2024Electronics, KiCAD 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, […]
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 […]