DIY Reef Controller

Skunkmere

What size solder are you using? I just bought a new tip to solder these any advice on doing the multi leg chips?
 
I obviously didn't use any of the boards with the battery error.

The only difference between the two versions of the board is the layout of some of the parts. Functionally every connection is the same.

R10 is a resistor marked with 222 that goes right inbetween R11 and the ds1307 clock crystal. Sorry for not having better tutorials yet.

I hit a little snag that took a while to fix yesterday with the code so I had to push it back. There is very little left to do on the arduino mega side so I WILL post the code tonight by the time everyone gets off of work. Then I just have to checkup on the atmega328 code I wrote a while ago and touch it up a bit and that will be ready to go as well.

Tom, I can't remember his handle on here, has been working very hard to get a website up and running where we can post all the tutorials and downloads along with information on the boards so no one has to rummage through 33 pages of the forum to figure out whats going on. He is also going to help out with pushing data to the site from the controller once the best wifi solution is decided on.

Then its off to get the arduino due/5" screen running!
 
nice one :)
will this have links so we can down load the files to get the boards printed up :)
Looking forward to testing this :)
Thanks again :)
 
rott said:
Skunkmere

What size solder are you using? I just bought a new tip to solder these any advice on doing the multi leg chips?
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i used what i had on hand, 0.031 solder and a cheapo csi 950+ solder station. i did it just like the video, i added a little bit of solder on one pad, aligned the part and continued on to the rest of the leads. i didnt use flux, since i didnt have that fancy pen flux. just make sure your tip is clean and sharp enough dont use a blunt or big solder tip, especially not those huge gun solder irons.
 
Follow up:

16 relay control via ethernet...

Easy to use for wifi as well for this dev thread.

Now with Username and Password requirements.
Change to what you want in the hard code...look for user= pass=


ENJOY! :thumbsup:

As always...RENAME .doc to .ino and upload via Arduino :wavehand:
 

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I didn't get a chance to work on my boards today but I will tomorrow I hope.
I have some .025 solder I am going to use and I don't have flux either.

Drew very cool script you have there I think I am going to try to use it for some on demand irrigation around the house.
 
i am going to assume the solder is rosin flux core because someone might get the idea that you don't need flux you do need flux either in the solder or past , liquid , pen and so on.
 
Is there a 3d drawing or anything of the main board my silkscreen on it is bad cant read some of the numbers Or a good hi def. close up of a finished board I seen the one on the last page but some of that is missing to I think
 
on the mother board just below the DS1307 Q1 there is 4 pads I belive I solder 2 222 resistor's (just to the left of I2c-break) is this correct looks like R10 and R11?

also where is R9? Is it the one in the DS18b20?
 
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I know its been quiet on the progress lately. It took me a while longer to finish the UI than I thought it would and now I can only get an hour here and there to work on this due to school work. My classes are done on the 7th at which point I can start working on everything non-stop, although I am really trying to get the mega code out soon. :thumbsup:
 
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