Desert Home

I live in the Arizona Desert, Southwestern USA. It gets hot here, and my power bills got out of hand. This is a journal of my various efforts to bring this problem under control using the cheapest technology I could find. Saving money shouldn't cost a fortune.

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Saturday, October 29, 2011

The 2560 Board is Not So Stupid Anymore

As I noted here , the Arduino 2560 has a couple of problems right out of the box. The bootloader will refuse to load any sketch(program) th...

Friday, October 28, 2011

Winter is coming

I've had the fancy thermostats for a year now and they have been updated as new capabilities were needed and work pretty darn well. I...

Friday, October 14, 2011

Playing with Graphs part 2

I did it. With a heck of a lot of help from the support staff at Pachube, I can now read the data for whatever period I want and graph it. ...

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Playing with Graphs

I'm just testing the Google visualization library. The chart below should show the last few hours of power usage and temperature change...

Friday, September 30, 2011

Acid Pump - Level Indicator Working!

Twice now I've had the level indicator work. It worked exactly as I wanted it to. It tripped at around a gallon so I have a couple of ...

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Long Term Data Collection

I had an interesting failure yesterday. Something somewhere stopped working and my data stopped being recorded. I have no idea if my devic...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Acid Pump Level Indicator Try #2

The glue dried on my latest attempt at measuring the level of acid in my acid injector. This time it seems to be working. I used the same ...

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