Checks on Wattson Accuracy

EricMears

Oscargrouch wrote: »

Will give you her e-mail address to ask, in case you have a 'Death Wish'.

Read my earlier comment again ! I was the one saying we shouldn't ask her.:rotfl:

rogerblack

EricMears wrote: »

Whereas I can afford to leave one 25pence photoresistor and a couple of bits of plastic pipe outdoors all the time (and the other £20 worth is safely indoors).

My more recent attempt includes a very cheap USB webcam, pointed at the meter, with some very simple software that picks up the flashes and times between them.
This involved literally no construction.
(and yes, I have the required electronic components to do it the other way - this was way easier though)

I should probably note that my meter is indoors too - which makes the phone solution rather easier.

EricMears

rogerblack wrote: »

I should probably note that my meter is indoors too - which makes the phone solution rather easier.

Ours is outdoors - 25 metres away from house. It's set into a free standing brick enclosure which was partly put there as a demonstration to planners of what the house brickwork would eventually look like.