I got my weather station all soldered together and mounted in the solar shade. I designed a block to sit on top of the shade that will hold the battery. I also printed out an adapter for the solar shade to mount it on top of a metal conduit that I planted in the edge of my garden. I thought I was all done until a few days went by and I got a notification from Wunderground that my station had stopped reporting. The battery I am using has a solar panel, and I was hoping that it would charge the battery faster than the weather station drained it. Apparently not. There is a way to put the control board into deep sleep for a certain amount of time, but it required soldering another wire on the board. I took the weather station apart and added the wire, only to find out that my battery goes to sleep before the weather station wakes up again. Now, I need to figure out how to reduce power usage low enough for the battery to charge, but not too low that it thinks nothing is connected. Back the interwebs for research.
Tapping the holes to mount the board.
Conduit adapter. It was tight going onto the conduit, but just the right size to slip inside the weather station. This makes it real easy to bring the whole station inside when I need to work on it, or charge the battery.
Adding the wire for the deep sleep mode.
