Post by impactoz on Nov 28, 2020 16:00:51 GMT -8
Had an unfortunate event...
While playing around - my pi camera (which has a larger lens) was not mounted properly and upon closing the case - it popped the UV Glass out of the case... which is fine, as I have some spares somewhere... but...
After further investigations it appears I am getting I2 errors galore now, and it appears that the camera actually short circuted the Pi Grover board - close inspection - bottom right corner seems to have something blown - white misty stuff around the surface mounted component... Which would have been where the camera board might have touched it...
Pi works fine, any device not connected to the Grover board works fine - everything else appears dead.
I do have a spare grover board to play with this - so will confirm this is the problem.
My current case was getting small - with all the new sensors I have played with - its just getting too small... So I now have a larger box to mount everything again....
From experience I am thinking I might re arrange the components... As my temperature sensor will now be mounted in a Stevenson Housing - I dont need that mounted on the side of the case...
I think I will mount the dust sensor vertically - there was a past post about this about a year ago....
But it is the lightning detector I am thinking most about... Knowing that this needs to be kept away from pi because of interference - I am wondering if the pole going horizontally is really a good idea. Aways thought birds would land on that and break it eventually.
Mounting the Pi in the case near top left and having pole middle right - meant cables crossed around inside the case - and I was often getting interference on the lightning detector... So was thinking this time...on a pole pointing downards - making it further away from the Pi, and less prone to breakages... This way there would be less overlap of wiring around inside the case...
Thoughts
Relocating the lightning this way may stop my interference - but I am concerned that the detector pointing down now (where I have plenty of room on the pole - will it likely now get interference from the power cable or network cable that will now be next to it - as the lead in to the pole for the Pi
I cant send it upwards - not enough room - that would interfere with the wind / rain sensors
Mount the Pi at the bottom of the case, and place the lightning detector
While playing around - my pi camera (which has a larger lens) was not mounted properly and upon closing the case - it popped the UV Glass out of the case... which is fine, as I have some spares somewhere... but...
After further investigations it appears I am getting I2 errors galore now, and it appears that the camera actually short circuted the Pi Grover board - close inspection - bottom right corner seems to have something blown - white misty stuff around the surface mounted component... Which would have been where the camera board might have touched it...
Pi works fine, any device not connected to the Grover board works fine - everything else appears dead.
I do have a spare grover board to play with this - so will confirm this is the problem.
My current case was getting small - with all the new sensors I have played with - its just getting too small... So I now have a larger box to mount everything again....
From experience I am thinking I might re arrange the components... As my temperature sensor will now be mounted in a Stevenson Housing - I dont need that mounted on the side of the case...
I think I will mount the dust sensor vertically - there was a past post about this about a year ago....
But it is the lightning detector I am thinking most about... Knowing that this needs to be kept away from pi because of interference - I am wondering if the pole going horizontally is really a good idea. Aways thought birds would land on that and break it eventually.
Mounting the Pi in the case near top left and having pole middle right - meant cables crossed around inside the case - and I was often getting interference on the lightning detector... So was thinking this time...on a pole pointing downards - making it further away from the Pi, and less prone to breakages... This way there would be less overlap of wiring around inside the case...
Thoughts
Relocating the lightning this way may stop my interference - but I am concerned that the detector pointing down now (where I have plenty of room on the pole - will it likely now get interference from the power cable or network cable that will now be next to it - as the lead in to the pole for the Pi I cant send it upwards - not enough room - that would interfere with the wind / rain sensors
Mount the Pi at the bottom of the case, and place the lightning detector