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Owain writes:
Rick Hughes wrote:
Anybody anything better .... the key would seem to be the sensor ...
large enough surface are to catch first few drops of rain, stable enough
not to corrode in a couple of weeks.

Veroboard with alternate strips commoned to each sensor wire?

That was the basis of one in Everyday Electronics which I made
well over 30 years ago. You need to heat it too (a few low power
resistors are sufficient), or it can takes ages to dry out and
stop reporting rain, when the rain stopped ages beforehand,
and it might otherwise be triggered by condensation.

I think I've seen a simple module in Maplin which works much
the same way.

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