Design notes, install write-ups, and hard-won lessons from the team building the hardware and software behind SmartCloudControls.
3 posts so far — more as we build.
I wanted a tool I could hook up with the system and power off, then switch the system on and record what happened from the first second. That meant pressure, temperature, and current on one board, with every reading going to a database the whole team can open.
Part 2 of a series
Part two. The technician photographs the equipment — the data plate, the wiring, the badge — and each photo is read in the background. The data plate fills in refrigerant, model, serial, tonnage, voltage, phase, and RLA, so superheat and subcooling no longer depend on someone selecting a refrigerant by hand.
Part 1 of a series
First in a series — more detail to come. We are converting our monitoring device into a diagnostic setup, built on a custom board we designed so every relevant reading can be taken and recorded: pressure, temperature, amp draw, supply and return air, and humidity. Everything logs every ten seconds to a link the whole team can open.
More write-ups coming soon. New engineering notes land here as we finish them.