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24-11-2011 1:34pm#1
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The wireless sensor on my toy has died, and I can't seem to find a replacement for it at a reasonable price. Was looking around some of the threads above, and saw the WH3080 for eur114. Am tempted to get this, but I don't know how useful it will be; the garden is small, and although reasonably open, it has trees, houses etc around. I'm not in a position to mount the anemometer/wind vane on the chimney or anything (rented house). The garden is like this
Although I suppose if the Euro survives and I buy a place of my own then I'd maybe in a better position.
I'm never going to get into any sort of forecasting, I'd be more using it just for curiosity (and to check how many layers I need to wear without going outside!)
Is this thing overkill for what I want? If so can someone recommend something a bit more suitable?
And if this is NOT overkill, can anyone please tell me the pros/cons of the one listed above compared to say this ws2350.
Thanks!
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http://mobile.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=220865
Bought this on sale in Maplin for around 55-60 euro, was looking for something with a PC link but the price would have doubled so I checked the reviews on this one and bit the bullet.
I love it! I'm in no position at the moment to be spending a small fortune on a more professional weather station, but I'm glad I bought this, perfect for the back garden, and seems to be quite accurate when I compare it to Shannon readings, my closest proper station.
Just need the cold to really test it!!
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Strangegravy wrote: »http://mobile.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?moduleno=220865
Bought this on sale in Maplin for around 55-60 euro, was looking for something with a PC link but the price would have doubled so I checked the reviews on this one and bit the bullet.
I love it! I'm in no position at the moment to be spending a small fortune on a more professional weather station, but I'm glad I bought this, perfect for the back garden, and seems to be quite accurate when I compare it to Shannon readings, my closest proper station.
Just need the cold to really test it!!
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I have this one too , its basic but does what I need for the price. Maybe next year Ill upgrade to a better one with Pc link up0 -
I like the idea of being able to connect it to a PC to archive the data. So on the maplin site I saw this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/usb-touchscreen-wireless-weather-forecaster-228825 how would this compare to the others? Ken
They are all essentially the same, I have this one branded as a WH181, this model should have a few tweaks made to it by now, and at the price, I think it's good, I paid just shy of €200 in Maplin in Cork just 12 months ago.
This model and the first one you linked to, WH3080, has everything on a nice mounting pole so you can just stick it in the middle of the garden until you sort out a location and mount a bigger pole for it.
My one suffers from spikes, a passing Taxi or Garda car can set off wind or temperature alarms and my temperature needs adjusting via the software as I read quite high in the warm days and quite low on the colder events.
Wind mine is just ten feet off the ground and I'm still trying to gauge it, it seems to be under but graphs follow the basic high and lows. Wind direction is a mess though, it's just too close to the ground and the sensor itself is not accurate enough for a lofty position anyway. I've recently mounted a wind sock to check the direction that it is showing and it agrees ~ but prevailing winds on any given day seeming come to my WS from a different angle.
Rain: now here all these buckets are very poor and they will need a bit of attention. In the beginning I found mine too tight so it wouldn't tip and then loosened out too much and would tip in the wind and then the spiders just loved it and they gum it up regularly. After my last maintenance I sprayed the whole inside with silicone and very finely sanded the floor as the tipper has dug a trench in the base and it would just tip and stick. Since then though, it has behaved and I'm finally getting some readings that I can compare.
I actually like the look of mine too. I like the Anemometer and the Wind Vane separate.
The touch screen: My model is two models behind the N96GY and they have said they have made improvements to the screen, I've mine mounted high on a wall to get reception and I can't see it. The touch screen membrane is just too thick. I don't use the touch screen
Mine is permanently attached to a USB hub to my PC. The basic software is not too bad but we enter a whole different world here.0 -
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My one suffers from spikes, a passing Taxi or Garda car can set off wind or temperature alarms and my temperature needs adjusting via the software as I read quite high in the warm days and quite low on the colder events.
Wind mine is just ten feet off the ground and I'm still trying to gauge it, it seems to be under but graphs follow the basic high and lows. Wind direction is a mess though, it's just too close to the ground and the sensor itself is not accurate enough for a lofty position anyway. I've recently mounted a wind sock to check the direction that it is showing and it agrees ~ but prevailing winds on any given day seeming come to my WS from a different angle.
Rain: now here all these buckets are very poor and they will need a bit of attention. In the beginning I found mine too tight so it wouldn't tip and then loosened out too much and would tip in the wind and then the spiders just loved it and they gum it up regularly. After my last maintenance I sprayed the whole inside with silicone and very finely sanded the floor as the tipper has dug a trench in the base and it would just tip and stick. Since then though, it has behaved and I'm finally getting some readings that I can compare.
What I get from the above though is that it's not really very accurate at all - spikes from passing RF interference, sticky rainbuckets, and inaccuate wind gauge (which I can accept, as obviously the placement of the sensor is important) - so I'm beginning to wonder if there's much point at all, am I better off just sticking my nose out the door?0 -
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Back again with more questions
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Am thinking of getting the maplin one fo £70, can get it delivered to belfast for free, so comes in around 80 euro or so, maybe a little more.
The questions I have though are ;
1) Is it possible to only set up say the thermomemeter and rain gauge, but not mount the wind speed/direction sensors at the same time (just thinking that cos of where I'd be able to place it, they'd be not very accurate)
2) How do you stop birds landing on the sensors? Or is this not really an issue? Reason I ask is that I have 2 bird feeders in the back garden and they tend to perch on top of the feeders, so am hoping they won't do the same to the weather sensors.
Thanks
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Back again with more questions) K
When it goes up first they think it is another perch. But a little wind will keep the anemometer and wind vane moving so it's only the larger crows that occasionally try and land on calm days.
You might as well set it all up, you get a good length of cable to facilitate a variety of mounting options.0 -
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Yeah there's probably nothing to stop you writing an app to pull the data from the head unit and send it (email, website, sms etc) to your handheld. That's what I'll probably (slowly) do for mine, so I can leave the headunit plugged into the media server downstairs and I can see the data on my phone from the comfort of my bed
Of course that might well change when I get my new toy; currently in the belfast office, hoping to have it by Thursday
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I was n galway 2day,went into malpins and spotted a home weather station for sale, its the same one that was mentioned earlier n this thread. The missus was with me and she suggested getting it for me as a xmas present .I wasnt going to say no so we head home later n the day with me planning to set it up for the upcomming storms:D.But no, She had other ideas.Shes just gone and hid the fecking thing on me now till xmas morning. We are currently not speaking:mad::mad::mad:
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john mayo 10 wrote: »ot speaking:mad::mad::mad]
Weather is fickle, there is always another storm. Love like you have, well that's worth nurturing. See you Christmas Day. 0 -
Yeah there's probably nothing to stop you writing an app to pull the data from the head unit and send it (email, website, sms etc) to your handheld. That's what I'll probably (slowly) do for mine, so I can leave the headunit plugged into the media server downstairs and I can see the data on my phone from the comfort of my bed
Of course that might well change when I get my new toy; currently in the belfast office, hoping to have it by Thursday
Your assuming I can write an app! It was more a case of most units or even computer programes seem to be quiet dated looking. Something that looked a bit more user friendly and could be easily hooked to a computer and therefore wifi I would have thought would be jumped at by station makers. The Oregon Scentific look quite good and if they were to make a version that would report to your own hand held device that would be excellent.0 -
john mayo 10 wrote: »I was n galway 2day,went into malpins and spotted a home weather station for sale, its the same one that was mentioned earlier n this thread. The missus was with me and she suggested getting it for me as a xmas present .I wasnt going to say no so we head home later n the day with me planning to set it up for the upcomming storms:D.But no, She had other ideas.Shes just gone and hid the fecking thing on me now till xmas morning. We are currently not speaking:mad::mad::mad:
Be warned, this is the one I have, and I tend to carry it around from room to room just in case I miss something... the wife just laughs at me! 0 -
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Strangegravy wrote: »Be warned, .. the wife just laughs at me!
So did mine, do did my wife, but now she's doing most of the reading and running in for the handheld anemometer and questioning why the rain alarm is not sounding and she has completely stolen my first scanner for a good while my now and my best receiver for broadcast radio.
Let her laugh I say.0
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