home weather stations

[mentalnurse]

a few months ago i got my self a home weather station, i have been intressted in the weather for a long time and check the forcasts everyday but then thought i would treat my self to one of these.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=223254

does anyone else have one of these home set ups or something like it?

 

[rcastillo]

Yup. It serves to tell me how cold I'm about to be on my bicycle or motorbike, and how little I know about meteorology!

 

[BorderReiver]

Had a Davis set up for many years. The anemometer is playing up now and I think it's about time to get new kit.

I record the min and max figures on graph paper everyday and it's interesting to watch the trends over the years.

What I would like is a totally wireless system with PV charging for the batteries. Anyone got any recommendations?

 

[tytek]

Yup. It serves to tell me how cold I'm about to be on my bicycle or motorbike, and how little I know about meteorology!

I was after a clock to go on my motorbike (because I couldn't look at my watch) and ended up buying a little weather station (with a clock) from Tesco. It only cost a tenner so it was good value.

It tells me the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure and predicted conditions.

 

[mentalnurse]

Had a Davis set up for many years. The anemometer is playing up now and I think it's about time to get new kit.

I record the min and max figures on graph paper everyday and it's interesting to watch the trends over the years.

What I would like is a totally wireless system with PV charging for the batteries. Anyone got any recommendations?

mine is wireless but it say the batteries only need changing every 12months but who knows (tell u in a year) plus i think it only takes 4 aa any way so no great cost. mines about 10m from the post to the unit in the house with no problems noticed.

 

[Miyagi]

My late Grandfather used to have a weather station outside the house, between the coal bunker door and the kitchen door.

It was a stone hung from an angle iron (what folk would hang flower baskets from).

I can't remember what stone it was but it worked a treat.

 

[Mesquite]

My late Grandfather used to have a weather station outside the house, between the coal bunker door and the kitchen door.

It was a stone hung from an angle iron (what folk would hang flower baskets from).

I can't remember what stone it was but it worked a treat.

Wasn't this one was it by any chance?

 

[Miyagi]

Wasn't this one was it by any chance?

Hahahahahaaa I've never seen that one before, but it was exactly the same idea.

I've even seen them set up on tripods and carried in a landrover.

atb

Liam

 

[mentalnurse]

seen that somewere before love it makes me smile when i see it.....

 

[Chinkapin]

The simplest ideas are always the best. Supposedly, NASA spent 1,000,000 USD developing an ink pen that would write upside down, under water, and in space. One day a Russian team of scientists was touring the NASA facilities and a NASA scientist proudly showed one of the pens to the visiting Russians. One of the Russians looked at it and said: "we just gave our cosmonauts a pencil."

 

[JamesT]

i can see the wallet coming out !!!! oh dear

 

[bothyman]

You should get one like this

 

[poddle]

I bought one from Lidles for around 12 quid, tells me all the current info, plus makes predictions, normally it aint too bad but that last two days has predicted sunshine, but actual fact it belting down.

 

[AJB]

Had a Davis set up for many years. The anemometer is playing up now and I think it's about time to get new kit.

I record the min and max figures on graph paper everyday and it's interesting to watch the trends over the years.

What I would like is a totally wireless system with PV charging for the batteries. Anyone got any recommendations?

Hi,

I’ve had one of these

http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/acatalog/info_2_ES_WS2300.html

running for about 6 or 7 years. I'm sure it's not the best but works and is fun, it connects to my PC and downloads data for analysis etc. I'm replying to you for two reasons...

1 My anemometer started playing up too - a good blast of WD40 flushed out loads of gunk from the dried out bearing and it seems fine again.

2 I run mine wireless even though it can be wired. I think I've changed the batteries (2xAA) 3 times so I doubt if a charging system is worth the money. The issue about running, at least my system, wireless is that the sender and base station are not in continuous communication they “talk” about every 10 seconds. That’s fine for temperature and rain fall etc, but it tends to give misleading snapshots of wind speed and direction. If you’re buying a new system it would be worth checking out the update frequency and deciding if this is an issue to you – it bugs me to see a sudden blast breaking the trees and the read out says zero!

 

[jonajuna]

The simplest ideas are always the best. Supposedly, NASA spent 1,000,000 USD developing an ink pen that would write upside down, under water, and in space. One day a Russian team of scientists was touring the NASA facilities and a NASA scientist proudly showed one of the pens to the visiting Russians. One of the Russians looked at it and said: "we just gave our cosmonauts a pencil."

nice story but a myth

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen

 

[Mesquite]

How about this from Anchor Supplies.

 

[jonajuna]

thats the same as the maplin one from the top of the thread but 1/3 less cost

 

[Chinkapin]

Jonajunga:

Those apocryphal stories have a way turning out to be.......well, apocryphal don't they? You will note that I started the second sentence with "Supposedly," which was a kind of clue to where my mindset was at the time. Thanks for the link to the Scientific American article, which laid this to rest. Interesting part about the Soviets buying the Fisher pens for their Cosmonauts. Coincidentally, I borrowed a pen from a student once and it was one of these Fisher pens. It wrote very poorly, and was a very unimpressive piece of kit, to say the least.

 

[mentalnurse]

to tell the truth i got mine in a sale so i got a good deal from maplins at the time.

 

[jonajuna]

Jonajunga:

Those apocryphal stories have a way turning out to be.......well, apocryphal don't they? You will note that I started the second sentence with "Supposedly," which was a kind of clue to where my mindset was at the time. Thanks for the link to the Scientific American article, which laid this to rest. Interesting part about the Soviets buying the Fisher pens for their Cosmonauts. Coincidentally, I borrowed a pen from a student once and it was one of these Fisher pens. It wrote very poorly, and was a very unimpressive piece of kit, to say the least.

i use a bic, cant shave with it though