Year: 2011
Completely Weathertight and doors fitted
I managed to finish the eaves on the hen house over the weekend and fitted the doors and their hinges. The latches for the doors are pretty simple, they’re just a cam made out of ply which you…
Read More »Cladding the Hen House
After a bit of bad weather, I managed to get the roof and external cladding onto the Hen House. The roof frame was too heavy for me to lift by myself, so I had a friend come over…
Read More »Construction under way
I managed to get some work completed on the Hen House over the weekend. I got the floor frame onto the posts and screwed in position. The floor was very heavy as it’s made out of 1.6mm thick…
Read More »Curious Cows
I haven’t been able to do any work on the Hen House recently. The grass in our paddocks got up to knee height, so we asked a neighbor if he wanted to put his cows in the paddocks…
Read More »Digging holes for the Hen House
Yesterday I had the fortunate experience of reminding myself why I don’t like digging holes. The Hen House is held off the ground on six 100×100 (4″x4″) treated posts concreted into the ground. The posts are only sunk…
Read More »La Crosse TX20 Anemometer Communication Protocol
After a LOT of investigation of the La Crosse TX20, I’ve managed to fully decode the complete datagram from the La Crosse TX20 INCLUDING the Checksum. Here’s everything you’ll ever want to know about the pin out and…
Read More »Disassembling a La Crosse TX20 Wind Anemometer
I’ve been wanting to build a weather station, complete with the Geiger counter I’ve been working on. Building the wind speed and direction sensor seemed like a daunting task, especially since they need to be weather tight, but…
Read More »More information found on Violet Wand
I’ve managed to find some very useful information on a Violet Ray design through the Google Patents website. The patent number is 1506344. The link to the patent is http://www.google.com/patents?q=1506344. This patent isn’t for the model I’m trying…
Read More »First look at the insides of the Violet Wand
With the lower cover removed, it becomes clear that the internals of this Violet wand are very similar to the Master brand unit. This should make it a lot easier to find problems than blind investigation. The intensity…
Read More »Disassembling a Violet Wand
The first step to any repair is getting into the guts of the device…. primarily without damaging it. There is very little information on the web about the internals of these devices. It looks very similar to the…
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