[TowerTalk] Weather station recommendations esp wind direction and speed?

Grant Saviers grants2 at pacbell.net
Thu Feb 28 23:43:10 EST 2019


Does anybody know how to ohm out the leads from the Davis Vantage wind 
sensors?  Mine is way up the tower and the color codes for the downleads 
got lost by the climber.  I couldn't find anything to help in the docs.

Grant KZ1W

On 2/28/2019 16:45 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I'll second the recommendations for the Davis Vantage Pro2 and weewx.
> The main complaint you hear about Davis is that it's expensive.  That
> includes the computer interface, which is extra.  While I've heard good
> things about Peet, most of the low-cost stuff gets a bad rap for
> reliability.  I'm on only my second Davis since I think 2002.  Ask
> people with Lacrosse and Ambient how many years they get out of each new
> station.
> 
> Do think about height for the wind sensor, and proximity to other
> things.  I see them mounted on towers, and I'm unclear on how much that
> impacts measurments, so I should go read the setup guidelines.
> 
> 73 de n1dam
> 
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