[TowerTalk] Wind Guages

[DavidC]

Fascinating Electronics also makes a high quality unit:
http://www.columbia-center.org/fascinating/obs/instrmnt.html

Their sensors come with 100 foot cables so I imagine you can
go a whole lot further than that.  I think mine is sold but ... ;-)

- 73, DavidC  K1YP

> Some weather stations restrict the length of the cable between the sensor
> and the display. I use a Radio Shack weather station that restricts the
> cable length to about 40 feet. It's a good unit (really made by Oregon (?)
> Scientific), but the cable length restriction forced me to put the wind
> sensor on the roof. I think the Peet units let you use cables of much
longer
> lengths. There are also units on the market that use and RF link. I think
> Peet and Davis both have those. A friend who was using an older Davis unit
> with a cable link said it was very susceptible to RFI and he had to
purchase
> a special filter kit. I'm pretty sure Peet has a web site.
>
> 73, Dick WC1M


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