Weather Station Required - Recommendations?
 

Hi

We need to buy a new weather station as the one we have now isn't
working very well and we're finding it hard to get local support.
Currently we have a Davis Weather Monitor II but it's reading are all
wrong, unreliable and it's old so it's time to change. The reader is
up on the roof, and we have a receiver in a room downstairs which then
links to a computer to store the data (sorry if my terminology is
wrong - I don't know much about weather stations). As we are not
really up with weather stations, we are hoping that someone might be
able to make a few suggestions as to which will meet our needs.

We're located in Brisbane, Australia, so we will need local support
should anything go wrong (onsite support would be good). The items we
need to be able to monitor include:

- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Outside temperature
- Outside humidity
- Barometer
- Daily rainfall

We need this to be updated at least every five minutes and we need it
to be logged so that we can get reports from certain past dates. I've
read about wireless models - is that where the reader and receiver
talk to each other without cables (is it that obvious?). This would
be good but are they reliable? Any thought and suggestions will be
greatly received.

Cheers!

Bobbie.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service

Weather Station Required - Recommendations?
 

Oh, and I should add that we need to be able to show the data on a
website, so it needs to be able to export it's data somehow. Make
sense? Thanks.

Weather Station Required - Recommendations?
 

Bobbie Weeks (Ms) wrote:
Oh, and I should add that we need to be able to show the data on a
website, so it needs to be able to export it's data somehow. Make
sense? Thanks.

Get another Davis.

http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/index.asp

Weather Station Required - Recommendations?
 

Bobbie Weeks (Ms) wrote:
Hi

We need to buy a new weather station as the one we have now isn't
working very well and we're finding it hard to get local support.
Currently we have a Davis Weather Monitor II but it's reading are all
wrong, unreliable and it's old so it's time to change. The reader is
up on the roof, and we have a receiver in a room downstairs which then
links to a computer to store the data (sorry if my terminology is
wrong - I don't know much about weather stations). As we are not
really up with weather stations, we are hoping that someone might be
able to make a few suggestions as to which will meet our needs.

We're located in Brisbane, Australia, so we will need local support
should anything go wrong (onsite support would be good). The items we
need to be able to monitor include:

- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Outside temperature
- Outside humidity
- Barometer
- Daily rainfall

We need this to be updated at least every five minutes and we need it
to be logged so that we can get reports from certain past dates. I've
read about wireless models - is that where the reader and receiver
talk to each other without cables (is it that obvious?). This would
be good but are they reliable? Any thought and suggestions will be
greatly received.

Cheers!

Bobbie.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service

I use a Davis Vantage Pro 2 with "Weather Display" to update my data in
the internet http://wasserliesch.dyndns.org/~mkri...serliesch.html

Marc
Germany - Europe

Weather Station Required - Recommendations?
 

Although not local to you, I highly recommend a RAINWISE. Their product is
excellent and their customer service is outstanding. You can visit them at:

http://www.rainwise.com

Mine is in action he
Virginia Beach Backyard Weather
http://members.cox.net/jbecker31
--
Jim Becker
"Bobbie Weeks (Ms)" wrote in message
...
Hi

We need to buy a new weather station as the one we have now isn't
working very well and we're finding it hard to get local support.
Currently we have a Davis Weather Monitor II but it's reading are all
wrong, unreliable and it's old so it's time to change. The reader is
up on the roof, and we have a receiver in a room downstairs which then
links to a computer to store the data (sorry if my terminology is
wrong - I don't know much about weather stations). As we are not
really up with weather stations, we are hoping that someone might be
able to make a few suggestions as to which will meet our needs.

We're located in Brisbane, Australia, so we will need local support
should anything go wrong (onsite support would be good). The items we
need to be able to monitor include:

- Wind direction
- Wind speed
- Outside temperature
- Outside humidity
- Barometer
- Daily rainfall

We need this to be updated at least every five minutes and we need it
to be logged so that we can get reports from certain past dates. I've
read about wireless models - is that where the reader and receiver
talk to each other without cables (is it that obvious?). This would
be good but are they reliable? Any thought and suggestions will be
greatly received.

Cheers!

Bobbie.
Queensland Fire and Rescue Service

Weather Station Required - Recommendations?
 

Bobbie Weeks (Ms) wrote:

We're located in Brisbane, Australia, so we will need local support
should anything go wrong (onsite support would be good).

Ecowatch, located at Kilsyth, Victoria, are Davis agents that provide
pretty good service throughout Oz. No onsite service, but Express
Post is pretty quick these days. Telephone (03) 9761 7040 (they don't
have a website) -- Alvin Petersen is the man to talk to.

A wireless Vantage Pro with data logger should do everything you want.
The station will communicate directly with the console, without
cables, up to reasonable distance within direct line of sight (100
metre or so). The data logger goes inside the console and connects to
your computer's serial port.

Mine's an older model that's given very little trouble over five years
or so. I upload my data to Weather Underground using the Davis
software. Only downside is that daily rainfall is recorded midnight
to midnight (not 9 am like BoM) but there are ways around it.

Ecowatch have always been happy to provide printed catalogues and
price lists, along with reliable advice and aftersales service.

--
John H