If there's a simple way to measure Relative Humidity, you could cheat
and just assume that it's raining or very close to doing so when the RH
was very high...?

Just a thought while I was sitting here reading... might be full of
holes...

Nate

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 15:07, cdb wrote:
> Outside looking glass Jinx - to go with my sprinkler controller.
>
> Yes the shorted PCB board not a problem an Oscillator  and a Schmitt
> trigger, I just wanted to be different and possibly novel hence the
> Piezo idea.
>
> I'd wondered about a dew sensor, wasn't too sure if dew and water
> were quite the same thing as far as the sensor was concerned.
>
> But thanks for the suggestions - I see I can buy a ready made car
> rain sensor from Bosch at $900 odd according to RS.
>
> And I thought this would be so simple!
>
> colin
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