Monthly Archives: November 2021

Model 1 Raspberry Pi bites the dust

My first ever Raspberry Pi has died 🙁 It’s been out with the weather sensors in my Stevenson screen for at least a year, but we had a power outage a short while ago and it wouldn’t reboot. I brought … Continue reading

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Swimming, 29th November 2021

I was a bit pushed for time today so I had to sacrifice some of my 25m reps, but that perhaps wasn’t such a bad thing as I was struggling with them a bit after managing to do all my … Continue reading

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Swimming, 28th November 2021

I had a couple of days off last week thanks to not feeling great and missing quite a bit of sleep, so today was my first swim for six days. I was expecting it to be fairly tough, but actually … Continue reading

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Well this is quite unexpected

This is a photo of some of this winter’s purple sprouting broccoli plants taken on 26th November. They’re starting to flower! The plants weren’t sown or planted out particularly early. In fact possibly later than the instructions on the packet … Continue reading

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No dig diary, 18th November 2021

Forgot to post this a couple of days ago… As I’ve already written, I’ve been getting ahead on compost for next winter, filling one of the bins with shredded material from some tidying up of the garden. There’s no grass … Continue reading

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AAG rain gauge repaired

Well, I hope so, at least. A new reed switch arrived and has duly replaced the old one. That turned out not to be too tricky. After unsoldering the original switch I bent the leads so the body of the … Continue reading

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Swimming, 22nd November 2021

I ran out of time yesterday so wasn’t able to swim and in fact I felt exceptionally tired too. I can’t claim that I felt that much better today, but off I went anyhow. It’s been the first really cold … Continue reading

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AAG 1-wire rain gauge (TAI-8575) circuit diagram

I’m not going to claim this is absolutely spot on as I’ve reverse-engineered it from the PCB traces which aren’t always easy to make out, but below is my best current idea of the circuit diagram for the PCB inside … Continue reading

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The rain gauge dismantled

I’ve now got the rain gauge down and taken it apart. Possibly I’ve posted photos before, but this is what the guts of it look like: After ungoo-ing the PCB, I’ve come up with a first approximation of the switching … Continue reading

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My rain gauge died again :(

A short while ago my AAG 1-wire rain gauge stopped telling me that rain had fallen at all. The 1-wire device still shows up in Linux and is readable, but the 1-wire counters never change. I’ve checked by dribbling water … Continue reading

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