{"id":3464,"date":"2013-04-01T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2013-04-01T21:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T02:00:41","slug":"weather-station-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"Weather station progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Watson Road 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I received today some little DC-DC voltage converters.\u00a0 These things are made in China and cost less to buy then what I would spend on the parts.<\/p>\n<p>So the next step is to get the beaglebone and the weather station both working off of one 12 VDC power source.\u00a0 Then I can measure the current usage.\u00a0 My estimates are that it will be about 300 mA, or 0.3 Amps.\u00a0 That is kind of hefty for what we are accomplishing.\u00a0 But I think we can make it work.<\/p>\n<p>Update!:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got the beaglebone working and the 12 VDC current is more like 100 mA.\u00a0 That is a good thing!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Watson Road 3.5 miles] I received today some little DC-DC voltage converters.\u00a0 These things are made in China and cost less to buy then what I would spend on the parts. So the next step is to get the beaglebone and the weather station both working off of one 12 VDC power source.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}