Northwind Field Notes

Field notes

Long-running notes about small sensor deployments: what survives a winter on a roof, what corrodes, and what the data looked like afterwards.

Three winters of rooftop humidity

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A cheap enclosure, a better enclosure, and the difference twelve months of freeze–thaw makes to both.

Battery budgets that actually held

Field log

Measured draw versus datasheet draw for four low-power radios, plus the one that lied.