On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Paul Alfille <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble recreating the error.
> I tried 8000 consecutive readings on an AAG humidity sensor. No stray
> readings.
> I'll look through your logs next.

I seem to have fixed the problem. I had a 12V power brick connected
directly to an outlet but my definitive installation would be to power
it from a UPS. I still needed to run some wires to do that but today I
decided to just plug it in provisionally, not thinking it would make
any difference. As it turns out all the wrong readings disappeared
once I did that. My AC power must be dirty and the 12V transformer
must be crappy at filtering high frequencies.

This also explains why the old sensors didn't have any problems. The
hobby boards hubs use extra cat6 pairs to put 5V power on one and
whatever they are fed on another. Their sensors use those but my other
installation does not, so only those were affected. I wonder if I
disable the unfiltered output in the hubs (leaving only the pair with
the 5V) the situation improves.

I don't know if there's anything owfs can do to be resilient in this
kind of installation but now I'm guessing that if I improve the power
connections for the rest of my sensors I'll stop seeing some of the
other more sporadic wrong readings.

Pedro

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