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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Battery Charging - Part 6

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My float charger that is based on ideas I stole from the Harbor City 42292 device has gone through another iteration.  I decided to actuall...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Still Wrapping up the Mega2560 Bootloader

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More on the continuing drama of the 2560 bootloader.  Most recent post on this is  here . I just moved a lot of my code up to IDE 1.0.3 and ...
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Saturday, February 9, 2013

Using the XBee Library Part 3

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Part 1 < link >, Part 2 < link >. As part of my porting of my devices to the latest version of the Arduino IDE, I decided to m...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Ethernet, Running Out of Connections

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When I added thingspeak < link >as a repository for my data online, I started to notice that my House Controller < link > was fr...
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Friday, February 1, 2013

Outdoor Temperature Part 3

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Part 1 is here < link >, part 2 is here < link > I've been asked several times now how I mounted the temperature sensor to...
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Monday, January 28, 2013

Water Heater Power Control

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In the last post I talked about how short burst of high power usage can be OK, but long periods of high power usage can kill me.  Remember, ...
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Speaking of Electrical Appliances

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My previous post on my electricity usage got me to thinking about appliances and how they use power.  This is a chart of my usage today.  Th...