More noob questions incomming
The snow is slowly starting to melt during the day up here in New Brunswick, though is still drops below freezing overnight. Only 1 to 2 feet of snow in the yard now.
Still expecting one big storm ... March always roars on the way out.
I have been thinking about how the diy equipment and lights will hold up under my winter conditions. Snow that stays comes from late November on. Most of the winter the temps drop to between -20C (-4F) and -30C (-22F). There are usually 2 to 3 weeks of the year that drop to -30C (-22F) to -40C (-40F).
Sometimes we get a Chinook in late Jan for a week and some of the snow will melt back and I get a chance to dig out some of the Christmas lights and decortations to bring them in. Otherwise they stay out to late March/early April.
I am planning on winterizing a cupboard or a deck box to hold and run the equipment (current plan is 2 x LE, 1 x pixelnet active hub and 1 x pc power supply) in and place it in the front deck.
I'll buy the premade cat5e cable from monoprice and I think i'll be making my own spt-2 extension cords if I can find the cable and plugs at a decent shipped price.
Looks like the SSC's will end up out in the snow along with the cat5e and power cables, possibly from early December until late March.
I haven't sorted out which SS nodes (lights) to order yet, but out of the ones listed in the wiki, it looks to me like Smart String nodes are the most rugged (IP68). I really like the looks of the Flexible strips, but don't know if they would cope.
Would there be a better choice for SS nodes (lights)?
Any tips for running the diy equipment in these conditions?
Thanks,
Steve
