![]() If I hadn't had that Oregon Scientific station, I wouldn't have forked the $500+ for the Davis VP-2. Until, you've had a weather station, it is really hard to understand what you are going to get out of it. There is a flip-side to Steve's point about the low cost of the Fine Offset. Even if it doesn't seem worth the effort directly, there might be benefits that even folks like Davis would appreciate. I hope Stu that you can manage to somehow coax WeatherCat to work with the Fine Offset without too much pain. WEATHERSNOOP FACEBOOK UPDATEThe Fine Offset rain bucket is 0.3mm, so we can't check that yet as unusually, we've only had a sprinkling of rain since midnight - I'll update when we get some more rain. temperature is a bit high, but the ISS has a 24 hour fan and there is some solar radiation already (~100W/m^2) - I'll check it again a few hours after dark). So for the important things (ext temp, hum and baro) it doesn't look too bad (you might say the ext. The 1081 has been running overnight so should have settled down by now. Now, as the sensor suite is sitting in the same place as the ISS and the console is sitting right next to the Vantage console, I thought, (because I need the data), it'd be good to see how the readings compare (we have to ignore wind as the 1081 anemometer isn't situated correctly). If it looks good and it makes it in, then the enquiries I've had suggests we should at least be able to recoup the development costs. ![]() If the test goes Ok then I'll flesh it out a bit and put it out for public test. In this case I'm hoping to get just the basics going so I can leave it sit on test to check reliability. WEATHERSNOOP FACEBOOK DRIVERDevelopment of a station driver for new hardware starts at about ?600 and goes up from there (depending on facilities and weirdness of the hardware). I know there are some issues with this hardware - the data-logger doesn't time stamp entries for example, and the update rate of 48 seconds is a lot slower than I'd like, but if we can get it going and it's reliable we'll put it out for a test run.Īgreed though, it's a bit of a risk. My job tomorrow is to start hacking the data and putting the station driver together. What we're going to do is monitor how stable/reliable it is. The wireless connection seems fine, with no problems picking up the signal from the thermo/hygro unit at least initially. Inside, the touch-screen console (see attached images) sits on my desk - this takes three AA batteries (12 months life claims the manual). WEATHERSNOOP FACEBOOK MANUALThe rain bucket (I'd strongly recommend moving it off the wobbly plastic beam and mounting it more securely) and anemometer plug into the the thermo/hygro unit which takes two AA batteries - the manual claims these will last for 24 months (they won't). This is not the ideal location for the anemometer, but as you can see it's only a temporary installation to get some data. I've attached some images - ignore the Davis ISS below, it was just convenient for me to bolt the Fine Offset pole to the pole holding the ISS. The rain bucket mounts on another beam, which clamps to the pole and the thermo/hygro unit mounts on another beam, which again is clamped to the pole. Wind is taken care of by a wind vane and anemometer - these mount on one plastic beam which sits on top of the pole. ![]() ![]() In the kit you get a slim, two part pole which holds all the sensors. Today, seeing as it's raining, I thought I'd set it upĪssembly isn't too difficult, but there are screws and bolts of varying lengths and it isn't totally clear which goes where. These are rebranded to many names and Maplin are currently doing a good deal on the WH1081, so yesterday, as if by magic, one arrived - ?59 including all taxes. So we get more requests to support Fine Offset stations than anything else - I've honestly lost count of the number enquiries for this hardware. ![]()
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