I spoke to soon… Last time I posted, I was pretty confident that my new weather station hardware was working perfectly. It ran out of power after 6 days. I could see that something in the device was consuming a pretty constant 2mA of current but I couldn’t figure out what. Then it hit me.…
(With a little help from Claude!) Ancient Technology About 20 years ago, my wife bought me an Oregon Scientific RMS600 weather station as a Christmas present. It sat on a window ledge by my desk at home, with an external sensor in the garden. It was largely used to answer the question, “Will I need…