We have a bunch of MIL-SPEC switches but they take T1-1/2 T5.5 telephone slide base lamps rated at 12VDC and up. I would love to run them directly from a microcontroller board!
I actually went so far as to line up a Korean firm to custom make these (highly recommend them).
Tonight I attempted to replace the bulb with a white 3VDC LED. It was easy… I performed and tested it twice in 5 minutes… only 62 more to go!
Blower is only 90 CFM on high. That made it kind of pointless to integrate blower speed control with the computer. Now I am looking at a couple of AC blower motors on eBay.
Woke up this morning and the overnight low was 18°F … I checked the Dropship and here is what I saw. Apparently 1800 BTU is insufficient to hold 70°F inside but 60°F isn’t terrible. I might have to supplement heat when the AvionicsBayLowTemp is triggered.
APC was less than cooperative with their EventLog file format so I started Google searching again. An article about the Smart-UPS intrigued me on Wikipedia and the article referenced this as an alternative to the PowerChute shortcomings:
http://www.apcupsd.org/
Installation on Windows was easy… it defaults to use USB but the configuration file was easy enough to edit in Notepad and change to COM3. The file formats are text and you can configure even faster polling intervals than PowerChute would allow (although I am mimicking the configuration I had in PowerChute Business Edition for now).
