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Field Report 2015-12-14: Re-install the Drip Monitoring Network

A project log for The Cave Pearl Project

Creating a generic data logging platform that is easy to build & modify for many different environmental monitoring projects.

ed-mallonEd Mallon 01/10/2016 at 18:280 Comments

With the Christmas tourist season bearing down on us, I decided not to do the usual round of RTC resets:

Re-install the Drip Monitoring Network

We have these units scheduled for rotation some time in mid 2016, and that will give me the ability to do a nine month drift check on the cheap eBay DS3231 RTC's we have been using. Dispite dire warnings about them in the forums, we have had far fewer problems with them than I was expecting. Basically if a board has not been ruined by the dodgy soldering that you commonly see, the chip itself seems to operate within spec.

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