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Hardware support => Projects => Topic started by: ejo60 on September 13, 2014, 06:31:42 AM

Title: The wireless outdoor thermometer
Post by: ejo60 on September 13, 2014, 06:31:42 AM
This is what I finished this week, and this data was collected last week:

(http://ejo60.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/graph_130914.png?w=567&h=278)

inside the box it looks like this:

(http://ejo60.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/inside_case.jpg?w=575&h=437)

More details are on my blog http://ejo60.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/a-wireless-outdoor-thermometer/ (http://ejo60.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/a-wireless-outdoor-thermometer/).

Update 22-sep: just discovered it is not a wise idea to stick that black piece of anti ESD foam over the FTDI pins because it forms a 5K bridge between Vin and ground. In this way I had a current drain of about 1+ milliamp, and this killed the battery in 350 hours. So I removed the foam and I moved the supply of all NTC and a LDR to a digital pin, something similar is done for the battery voltage monitor. The latest graph at day 16 is here

(https://ejo60.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/outdoormodel.png?w=575&h=437)

See also:

1) http://ejo60.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/day-16/ (http://ejo60.wordpress.com/2014/09/21/day-16/).
2) http://ejo60.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/outdoor-thermometer-day-14/ (http://ejo60.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/outdoor-thermometer-day-14/).

Ejo