Open and shut the electrical taps to water the different parts
of the garden. As for your water melons I really do not have
a tested solution but I read somewhere that cows milk better
if you play music for them and that they react very different
for different types of music. Perhaps you could try vibrating
the earth at different frequencies ...
Goran

Charles Craft wrote:
> Lots of comments and suggestions but nobody asked the really interesting question.
> 
> What are you doing with PICs in the garden?
> (I got a late start with my watermelons so am interested in automating their growth to increase yield) :-p
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Goran Hosinsky <hosinsky@ya.com>
>> Sent: Jul 1, 2006 2:06 PM
>> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
>> Subject: [EE] To socket or not to socket
>>
>> I am placing small circuits with a PIC in my garden, in
>> plastic boxes. They are protected from rain but the
>> boxes are not hermetic, cables coming in from below,
>> so ambient humidity, ants, spiders etc can sometimes
>> come in.
>>
>> Normally I always use sockets for mounting ICs but in
>> this case I wonder, if it would be better not to use
>> sockets to avoid the posibiity of oxidation and
>> faulty contact between the PICs pins and the socket.
>>
>> Any recommendations?
>>
>> Goran
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