ESPGeiger HW

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9 months 1 week ago #6542 by Juzzie
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That looks brilliant, nice job! I'm interested to buy the kit too.

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9 months 1 week ago #6543 by steadramon
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Thanks for the feedback! Enthusiasm for the project helps to spurr me on - juggling both the software and hardware has been a fun challenge for the last few months. I've identified some good improvement points for the software as well. This could keep me (and hopefully other contributors) busy for a little while!

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9 months 1 week ago #6544 by Simomax
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That looks good! Nice and simple. I'm curious as to why you use through-hole components and not SMT. Is it for ease of build?

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9 months 1 week ago - 9 months 1 week ago #6545 by steadramon
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Yes very much ease of build.

I considered SMT and some assembly done at the fabricators. Keeping in spirit of this being a kit and to appeal to the ESP/HomeAssistant/self build community as something that you build and tweak yourself I decided to keep it all through-hole. I plan on writing up information about the circuitry etc to then hopefully lead to a learning kit as well
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6 months 2 weeks ago - 6 months 2 weeks ago #6700 by steadramon
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ESPGeigerHW generates high voltage for the Geiger Tube by use of an integrated boost circuit - making 5V into ~400V.

ESPGeiger controls the high voltage at the tube with PWM generated by the ESP8266. The frequency and duty cycle can be adjusted by visiting the HV page @ http://ipaddress/hv

 
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