These notes were compiled as ARMAC was designed and developed and are prior to the previous descriptions which were derived in significant part based on them.

However, these do contain three things which might be of interest:

  • They show further technical detail of how the system is constructed.
  • They additionally contain much of the detail of products considered and adopted, and even where they can be sourced and their price at the time. Because this was an ongoing process over some 18 months the notes may at times be out of date - in that the approach described was superceeded. If in doubt turn to the Technical Notes section of this site.
  • They show, to a degree some of the reasons why some ideas were eventually supplanted by better ones. Some of the curious features that remain (for example a 13 core cable between house and pump shed) are legacies of earlier thinking which were replaced by better ideas (in this case placing an Arduino in the shed and then communicating over two wires between house and shed using RS485 digital protocols).

Development Notes Structure

The following is the complete sequence of sections across all three parts of the Development Notes, with links to each section.

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