i meant for the poll to be after everything was up outside.
the poll is somewhat skewed, because there is no option for folks who had no problems whatsoever. I understand your trying to gauge what kind of failures, etc. All of my nodes problems were DOA variety. Since they have been outside, no problems at all.
The material I mounted the nodes into is the material you buy from Home Depot for doing shower wall wraps with. Its like a thin plastic leather material. My node are mounted into enclosures through holes drilled into that material and and then caulked around the edges. Its not 100% watertight, but probably plenty water tight for snow.