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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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Arduino Mega2560 - Wrapping up the Bootloader Problem

In various posts ( here , here , here ) I've whined and discussed the problems with the bootloader implemented on the Mega2560 board. T...

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Let's Talk About Smoke Detectors a Bit

I've been having a continuing problem with smoke detectors. My house is wired for them and each one will connect to the others such tha...

Monday, May 14, 2012

Power Monitor Failure - Part 3

OK, fine, I didn't fix it. It failed again and this time I watched it for around 30 minutes. I used an XBee hooked into the USB port o...

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Power Monitor - Failure Part 2

Back at this post I briefly described a seeming failure with the power monitor. I wasn't able to get enough information at the time to...

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Shade - Extremely Low Tech

So, spring is here and the temps are rising. Ignore the temps that are reported by my XBee temperature device; it's obviously wrong the...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Power Monitor - Failure

I was busy around the house a couple of days ago and not paying attention to the Power Display , so later that day, I happened to notice tha...

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Acid Pump - Running Again

Well, it's installed. I got the clamps in and tried them out. Everything was fine and I put it all together and installed it. Natural...

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