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16-Aug-2026

Improved control and addition of ambient light measurement

A fully open lid did not drop the temperature to the upper limit of 140F.
A shade cloth curtain was added to the end of the lid, reducing the light entering the opening.

The blue track is the ambient light intensity from a TEMP6000 photocell added to the Arduino.
It is in arbitrary units scaled between 80 and 120.
It was a partially cloudy day.


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