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Rain Detector...

Started by JohnP, Mar 11, 2009, 12:56:30

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Fay

Does it pack your equipment away if you are indoors & it starts raining!! :lol:
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RobertM

Bear in mind that it's detecting rain which in turn means your kit is in the process of getting wet !

Fay

That is what I thought, Robert. Sort of shutting the stable door when the horse has alreasdy bolted   :lol:
It is healthier to be mutton dressed as lamb, than mutton dressed as mutton!

JohnP

Yes but I'd rather have a few drops of rain on the lenses than have a bucket load thrown over it.... Fay think of the situation the other night that you told me about - you said you were so concentrating on focussing etc. & had you hat up & it started raining.... imagine you were in doors having a cup of tea when that had happened & it was 10mins or so before you popped your head out to check... You could have a simple alarm connected to the rain detector - doesn't need to be down by your kit just outdoors somewhere...

Anyway - I think it's quite a neat simple device for the price...

Mike

Surely the trick is to detect clouds so you know to pack up BEFORE it starts to rain ;)
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Ian

talking of which, is your cloud sensor still off-line?

JohnP

Now Mike you wouldn't be trying to sell a new system you have developed there would you...  :-) John

Mike

Quote from: Ian on Mar 13, 2009, 15:45:18
talking of which, is your cloud sensor still off-line?

Yes it is. I tried to get it up and running the other day but I spotted a bug. I am going to work on it tonight so i'll let you know when it's fixed.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan

Mike

OK it's been debugged and is up and running again.  :)
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. Carl Sagan