Weather Station Offline For Emergency Maintenance
[ Saturday January 25th 2020 at 11:38 pm ]
My weather station is offline for emergency maintenance. It is a bit disappointing. I am not concerned. I did realize there was a chance of something breaking. I have a box of spare parts to fix what might go wrong.
I just spent about 30 minutes researching what went wrong. It is one of the worst case scenarios that has come up. What's wrong is the DC voltage regulator has short circuited from water getting in and around the electronics. I thought I did a good job weather proofing this. I am going to need to do more research when it is day time.
For right now I know what is wrong. I have a good idea of what needs to happen in order to fix it. I've gone into my box of parts to get the backup DC voltage regulator out. I've ordered a few spares so if this repair happens again I won't be caught off guard.
I can't viably fix this tonight. Winter construction is miserable. I am going to at least wait until the sun shines. Then I'll work through this.