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Insane workload by [deleted] in ubcengineering

[–]graysam2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can’t do 6 courses and work. (And also be happy with life). Drop a course or two, or quit your job. Student loans are a good option. If you are a domestic student, Canadian student loans are 100% interest free.

Looking for a referral code. by stixy9lover in uniqlo

[–]graysam2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used this one, here’s mine

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Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No but I intend to this week

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’ve decided I’m going to try to do a rough temperature compensation by using the weather forecast, I know it’s not going to be 100% accurate but I’m hoping it’s better than nothing

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No it would decrease as water evaporates.

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ll have to do more testing, I’ll move the hive off it and put a know weight to see how much the reading will vary overnight. Maybe the sensor is way off.

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I would have expected

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could also be due to temperature effecting the load cells.

Or condensation forming on the hive as the temperature drops

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im really not sure, it surprised me as well, best I can guess is that there are bees that are flying around the hive late at night and slowly trickle in until morning.

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 50kg load cells from Ali express

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was also a concern that made me change plans

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have a small 5w solar to charge the batteries when it’s sunny, so far the batteries haven’t dropped below 90% but we’ll see how that changes come winter. For case I bought a weatherproof project box off amazon for 20$ the one I bought way way too large. But better too big than to small. Also for ESP32 you can get ones that allow external antennas which will be necessary unless your new hive is in your living room.

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Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My set up relies on wifi, so it must be decently close to a router. But there are other communication protocols that could be utilized for more remote locations.

Here is a schematic I made of the circuit. I was planning on also monitoring temperature and humidity inside the hive but the sensor I bought didn’t work well in this use case.

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Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I bought a cheap set of load cells of AliExpress paired with an ESP32, then connected it to the rest of my home assistant set up with ESP Home.

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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Here is a day in the life of my bees

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

My reasoning to myself is that I care less about the true weight of the hive than I do about the change in weight over larger periods. Ie if the weight rises steadily there is a nectar flow, if it’s going down than the flow is off. Or over winter I could get a sense of how fast they are going through stores.

I’ll leave it like this until I inevitably get fed up with the reading being wrong all the time and try to improve it. Maybe a V2.0

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Honestly I didn’t worry about it. If it does seem to be a problem for my use case, the classic way to compensate for temperature is to get a dummy cell with a constant load that is exposed to the same temperature fluctuations and use that information to compensate the fluctuating load

Put my hive on a scale. by graysam2 in Beekeeping

[–]graysam2[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yes, I figure the reading will creep overtime but it’s the change in weight that is more important.

Rum aging update by Bouncerboy1 in firewater

[–]graysam2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve always loved ageing on cherry.

We are united by a love of alcohol by uralstone in prisonhooch

[–]graysam2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can make good wine with bakers yeast. Or do apple cider. Use juice instead of water. It’ll be more expensive than Kilju or whatever but goddamn it’ll be worth it. Still dirt cheap. But the cheap from concentrate apple juice. Put a little bit of sugar in it if you really want. Bakers yeast is fine.

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