Long Term Usability
For ESP Soil Moisture Sensor Rev 2.1
First of all: the product (V2.2) worked as described.
soon I had to replace the double sided tape holding the battery case.
5 month after inserting it into my plant I had to repot it and during that action I would glue battery case, which came off again.
I took it out of soil, cleaned it with water and recognized some blisters near the border of the sensor part.
Then I glued the battery holder. While drying a lot of the green coating of the board by the soil stick came off!
now the product is unusable, because I will not poison the plant with copper.
sad, I could not upload fotos proving that demage.
I think the whole sensor part should be sealed with lacqeur befor adding the parts.
update on 2017.07.17:
It seems that I had wrong estimations, hoped that the shop would replace me that item.
But nothing happend! That's a very bad experience about that product & store.
Response from AprilBrother | Jan. 28, 2018
Sorry about your sad story. We'll send a replacement board to you. Please contact us with message in Tindie.
Thank you.
