[Yesterday (friday): 3.5 miles]<\/p>\n
Today I finally dug into the autonomous weather station to see why it kept dying on me.\u00a0 I had been having to reboot it periodically.\u00a0 This week I’ve watched the log files more closely and I set it up to automatically reboot every day around noon.\u00a0 About half the time it would not find the sensor unit serial port and I’d get no readings.\u00a0 Then if I rebooted manually it would work OK.<\/p>\n
So I finally decided to dig into it and see if there were any obvious hardware problems.\u00a0 I got it all opened up.\u00a0 I took the sensor unit off and took it into the house for examination.<\/p>\n
I didn’t find anything seriously wrong.\u00a0 One of the power wires to the sensor unit (the -) looked like it might be a bit dodgy.\u00a0 So I cleaned that up with no problem and I got it all back together and mounted on the pole again.\u00a0 The pole has warped quite a bit, so I put in some spacers to get the sensor unit plumb and level again (by eye).<\/p>\n
Now the readings are coming in and it seems to be doing a good job.\u00a0 I think I have improved it, but we will have to wait and see how it goes.<\/p>\n
We also went into town today and stopped at Tractor Supply where I bought two new Rubbermaid garbage cans.\u00a0 We have three old ones which were store-brand, probably from Lowes.\u00a0 And those were getting crispy from being in the sun and the bottoms are very worn from where I drag them out the driveway to put them in place for trash pickup day.<\/p>\n
I was wondering how to throw away the old ones, how do you signal to the garbage man that you don’t want it back this time?\u00a0 But when I got home I broke one of them up easily, it was so brittle.\u00a0 I’ll get the other two old ones broken up eventually.<\/p>\n
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