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The inside of the ws-1081

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The inside of the ws-1081

Post by hans »

I couldn't find any pictures of it, so i took some myself.
It might be useful to somebody.(in cases of bad soldering,sensors etc).

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Post by beteljuice »

Thank you Hans.

A picture paints a thousand words !

Interesting, everyone has said about the poor contrast / backlighting, but it looks like from your pictures that they made provison for 4 LEDs, but only fitted 2.

Is that correct ?
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Post by hans »

no,as you can see in picture 4,there are 4 leds.
they are also used to align the lcd-part.

i also noticed,when you look at p4 and p6,that without the touchscreen,the lcd is much claerer.

thinking of making the touchscreen removable...... 8-)
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Post by keithatrochdale »

Mine has 4 too.

Has anybody got a copy of the manual, I seem to have put mine in a safe place...........

Memory is full, do I need to empty it, or will it just roll off the oldest data and replace with new data?
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Excellent - I almost feel like I own one now. :)

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Post by hans »

done a little experiment

here is a picture of my lcd
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now i removed the touchscreen.
one without a lamp,the next with.
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much better.

i leave mine off,don't use it,but one can make an extension cable(rj45) on it and put the touchscreen with a picture of ones lcd behind it in a pictureframe.
the picture is needed for the right placement of our finger
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Post by goldrush »

Kieth
You do not need to clear the memory, it will simply insert the new data and push out the oldest.
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Post by keithatrochdale »

goldrush wrote:Kieth
You do not need to clear the memory, it will simply insert the new data and push out the oldest.
Brill, many thanks for confirming that. :D
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Post by harrym1byt »

Second picture from the top, those small boards are:-

Receiver for outdoor sensors
............indoor temperature....................................................................... USB relay
|....................................hydrometer..............................................................................USB socket
| touch screen
| plug in
|..........................................alarm sounder

I have had to use fullstops above, to maintain the character spacing.
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Post by harrym1byt »

I was thinking...

Rather than move the touch screen out of the case into a picture frame, just remove it and add some small buttons down the edge of the case.

How many does it need?
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Post by hans »

The touchscreen connection has 8 contacts,probably 1 ground/plus,so i think you would need 7 switches,
something like these might work.
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then again,
i just took a look at the touchscreen (which i have removed)
it is made of 2 plates, each has 4 connections(the middle 4 to one,the outer 4 to the other),2 directing to a touch area,one from each plate to one area.

tomorrow i will try to make a schematic drawing of it.
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here is a drawing of the touchscreen.
i connected the contacts(numbers left) with a multimeter,then looked which area reacted to pressure on it.
so far i found these
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harrym1byt wrote:Second picture from the top, those small boards are:-
I probably got that WRONG!

Somewhere in there is the pressure sensor.
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this is the air pressure sensor
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Post by AndyC »

So we found the air pressure sensor then ! I reckon that orange/red wire is the receiver antenna so that is the receiver module. So the inside temperature / inside humidity must be both on that larger module. Yes ?
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