A drowned ZoombaTracker™

All very well, this irrigation business, and jolly for Zoomba that she likes it a lot here, chasing rabbits, but not so great she returned all wet, with a malfunctioning ZoombaTracker™.

She rummages around the irrigation channels, and sticks her nose into the conduits, thus putting the ZoombaTracker™ in water. It is dry here. Very very dry, so this is something I had not taken into account.

Now and then the tracker gave a sign of life, but more often it did not. Lucky my soldering iron and spare parts had just arrived with the car, so I had a spare ZoombaTracker™ and some Arduino Trinkets.

The SIM still worked, so did the LoNet GSM/GPS, but not the lipo-battery. Even after days of drying it cannot be re-charged. That is eleven euros down the irrigation channels. (Update! The battery is fine again.)

With the spare battery still malfunctions. Grmbl. (And worse.) Then the remaining part to swap is the Arduino. Screw-glue-desolder-solder-curse-grmll-sweat. But, it's working.

And it fits the little plastic Oropax box a lot better, with shorter wires, shorter battery wires, and the clever use of Tesa black tape.