{"id":1532,"date":"2024-05-22T21:35:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2024-05-23T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T23:32:57","slug":"metone-anemometer-fix-final-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/metone-anemometer-fix-final-product\/","title":{"rendered":"MetOne Anemometer Fix&#8230; Finally!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1532\" class=\"elementor elementor-1532\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-59c67fa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"59c67fa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5eb236d\" data-id=\"5eb236d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8c69c07 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8c69c07\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1536 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-230x307.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-350x467.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image1-rotated.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Well, after screwing up the footprints for the IC&#8217;s\u00a0 on both PCB&#8217;s (this board AND the DS2423 rain gauge board), I soldered up the components on the anemometer refit board and it looks pretty good for a Kicad and SMT newbie.\u00a0 \u00a0Only thing is, I got sort of a not-very-smooth solder joint on capacitor C2 on the GND side, but it WAS on a copper ground plane.\u00a0 Seems to be OK and not a cold solder joint.\u00a0 (My first SMT project.)\u00a0 Now onto the rain gauge project and solder up the DS2423 1-wire counter board &#8211; REV 2 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b92631 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b92631\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>And the PCB fits nicely onto the mounting holes where the original potentiometer previously was.\u00a0 With many thanks to those far more experienced Kicad users on the Kicad forum who helped me figure out how to place the mounting holes EXACTLY 120 degrees apart. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1534 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-230x307.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-350x467.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image2-rotated.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1533 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-230x307.jpeg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-350x467.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image3-rotated.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, after screwing up the footprints for the IC&#8217;s\u00a0 on both PCB&#8217;s (this board AND the DS2423 rain gauge board), I soldered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,41,1,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-kicad","category-uncategorized","category-weather-instruments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1532"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1532\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}