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I mentioned before that we had several RS3D. We have needed to fabricate our own power cables to reach installation sites that we intend for these stations to go. These lengths extend from the RS3D’s at 5, 10 and 15 m. We are using a 18 AWG power cable for these runs which we thought would result in minimal power loss. After testing, what I found is using the provided RS power adapter that outputs 5 V DC 3.0 A connected to our own cables, that the a 5 m length run was able to power up the RS3D’s without issue with continuous data production. The 10 m length run resulted in intermittent data production, and a 15 m length cable resulted in the RS3D remaining in “booting” mode in the rs.local/ URL page. Thought this might be useful information for anyone following this post or that may have similar issues in the future.
As an aside, it might be a good idea for the development team to figure out a way to improve the State-Of-Health page for the sensors. It would be helpful to not only know the system temperature, memory usage % and timing, but also the current voltage and power draw of the system. Also, having some idea of how many satellites are being tracked by the GPS would be nice. Something to consider.
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