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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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Rain - Finally

Late yesterday afternoon it finally rained here. Oh, there's been slight showers and even a few minutes of real rain, but my area final...

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Battery Charging - Part 3 (Harbor Freight item 42292)

Part 1 of this project is here , and part 2 is here . Yes, I'm still working on a good float charger for maintaining my batteries. Se...

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Acid Pump - Back in Service.....Again

A few posts back I declared that I was done trying to make the Hanna Dosing Pump work. That was a fact, I've just had too many problem...

Monday, July 9, 2012

Outdoor Temperature - Holy Cow

It's 9:30AM here and the temperature outside is 110F. WHAT?? I had no idea it got that hot that early in the day here. Fine, I've...

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Outdoor Temperature

I've had an outdoor temperature sensor for quite a while now. It's a simple temperature sensor hooked to an Xbee that gets power fr...

Monday, July 2, 2012

Charting Things

I was stumbling around the site where I store my data Cosm.com (it used to be Pachube.com) and noticed that they have updated their chartin...

Monday, June 11, 2012

Acid Pump - Fine, I Give Up.

I've been working on an Acid Pump system to automate the injection of acid into my swimming pool. There are a ton of details on this e...

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