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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Monday, November 28, 2011

Rocky Soil in the Desert

My relatives and friends that don't live in the desert don't understand why I complain all the time about the rocky soil. Those cit...

Acid Pump Problems, Part 2

Called Hanna Instruments today about the pump melting. They were polite and friendly, but didn't totally set my mind at ease. They wer...

Friday, November 25, 2011

Acid Pump - Problems.

I've had the acid pump I put together and controlling remotely working for a while now and it has already started giving me trouble. T...

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Measuring temperature, what not to do.

So, it was about 62F outside and an overcast day. I checked the temperature coming from my outdoor temperature sensor and it said 75F. I ...

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. ...

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