ADDENDUM Blog for BLOG#5 Testing Part 2 (Case Enclosure Reliability Monitor)
Test#2 - Enclosure 155H2GYCL
Running the Test Design Inside the1554H2GYCL Enclosure
Table of Contents
PUTTING THE CASE THROUGH It's Paces.
- I placed the components into the the1554H2GYCL Case as described in this photo.
I know it's not very clean, and I plan to mount the electronics after the challenge.
Ingress Protection Rating
- The 1554H2GYCL enclosure
- is a Plastic Enclosure, Watertight, Polycarbonate, has a rating of IP68
- Ingress Protection Rating: IP68 is as follows.
- It has the highest IP rating for water and can be completely submerged in water
- It has the same dust rating as the other enclosure and will not let dust particles in
- It is constructed of Polycarbonate with a Gasketed lid with two piece “tongue & groove” construction
- I put the MKR1 design into the Case, and placed the case into the following environments.
In the Freezer
- I placed the case in our Freezer with the other frozen foods. The results are displayed in this section.
- The inside case temperature was brought down below Zero Fahrenheit.
- I'm not quit sure if I'm using the Dust sensor correctly, because there were some Hight Dust concentrations in the Case.
In the Garage
- I placed the Enclosure in the Garage
- It was in the garage for about 8 hours.
- The temperature stayed around 52F degrees inside the enclosure. you can observe the dip in the temp chart on the dashboard below. It was a bit colder outside of the garage.
- The results are displayed in the following section.
In the SNOW
- I placed the Enclosure in a snow bank in the back of my home.
- It was raining and the fog was melting some of the snowfall we received last weekend.
- I kept the snow overnight. The case was in snow for more than 24 hours. The electronics stay DRY and the Temperature stayed around 32F degrees.
- The results are shown in the following section.
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At 5 PM I took another Pic I checked the vital signs |
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Well is 12 PM the next day It's still running and Next some vital signs..... |
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| checked the vital signs again using: the Phone Dashboard and Showing Current Weather conditions. |
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In Water
- After taking the enclosure out of the snow from the above test, I emerged it in a bucket of water, located next to the snow bank.
- The case was held down by a brick.
- The results are shown in the following section.
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Weighted Down with a brick!! |
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At about 5PMI Still DRY in the case The weather is tuning |
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Still Running at 8pm The Weather is getting nasty Almost time to bring the case inside. The Power USB charger LEDs, must be down to one by now. Almost time to get it out of the water.
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I Think the power charger lost all it's juice . Sure enough, according to the the last transmission according to The Thing variable list was 10:45 pm, just before I went outside and brought the bucket in |
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Sure did Deader than a Doornail!! |
The pail that the case as in had a thin layer of ICE on the surface.
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The case did take on some water. though?
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| Here is the weather conditions when I retrieved the case. No wonder there was a sheet of ice at the surface !! |  |
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And here is the electronic running under power again. Unscathed by the harsh environment |
- I'm now finished with the test of the 1554H2GYCL enclosure. It is Watertight and lives up to the 8 in the Ingress Protection Rating: IP68
- Now onto the Final blog in this series.
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