I'm a total novice and will remain so :-)

I'm interested in the weather and am considering buying a weather station.
I'm looking at the wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2 + the WeatherLink data
logger.

OTT or what ?

TIA.
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Regards,

Hugh Jampton

Hugh Jampton wrote:
I'm a total novice and will remain so :-)

I'm interested in the weather and am considering buying a weather station.
I'm looking at the wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2 + the WeatherLink data
logger.

OTT or what ?

TIA.

Not OTT at all, if you have money Hugh.

I purchased a VP + data logger about 3 years ago and it's performed very
well ever since.

The Temp and hum sensors are within 0.5% of my calibrated meters so it
seems fairly accurate

I hacked together a little place on the web - www.horsleyweather.com and
the VP + Virtual Weather Station uploads the data every 5 minutes. The
site isn't a patch on some I've seen "advertised" on the group but it's
had 10k hits in a year so a few people find it useful.

The kit even has a high WAF - SWMBO checks the temp every morning to
decide what to wear!

All in all, it's great fun and to me, worth every penny.

Go on - you know you _need_ one ;-)

Cheers

Neil

On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:07:39 +0000, Neil wrote:

I'm a total novice and will remain so :-)

I'm interested in the weather and am considering buying a weather station.
I'm looking at the wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2 + the WeatherLink data
logger.

OTT or what ?

Not OTT at all, if you have money Hugh.

No problem - I'm SKIing :-)

I purchased a VP + data logger about 3 years ago and it's performed very
well ever since.

The Temp and hum sensors are within 0.5% of my calibrated meters so it
seems fairly accurate

I hacked together a little place on the web - www.horsleyweather.com and
the VP + Virtual Weather Station uploads the data every 5 minutes. The
site isn't a patch on some I've seen "advertised" on the group but it's
had 10k hits in a year so a few people find it useful.

Another hit tonight - I like it - thanks Neil !

The kit even has a high WAF - SWMBO checks the temp every morning to
decide what to wear!

All in all, it's great fun and to me, worth every penny.

Go on - you know you _need_ one ;-)

Yep - getting more interested all the time :-) Now I just need to persuade
SWMBO - advice please (I jest) :-)

Thanks for your help Neil.
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

"Hugh Jampton" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:07:39 +0000, Neil wrote:

I'm a total novice and will remain so :-)

I'm interested in the weather and am considering buying a weather
station.
I'm looking at the wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2 + the WeatherLink data
logger.

OTT or what ?

Not OTT at all, if you have money Hugh.

No problem - I'm SKIing :-)

I purchased a VP + data logger about 3 years ago and it's performed very
well ever since.

The Temp and hum sensors are within 0.5% of my calibrated meters so it
seems fairly accurate

I hacked together a little place on the web - www.horsleyweather.com and
the VP + Virtual Weather Station uploads the data every 5 minutes. The
site isn't a patch on some I've seen "advertised" on the group but it's
had 10k hits in a year so a few people find it useful.

Another hit tonight - I like it - thanks Neil !

The kit even has a high WAF - SWMBO checks the temp every morning to
decide what to wear!

All in all, it's great fun and to me, worth every penny.

Go on - you know you _need_ one ;-)

Yep - getting more interested all the time :-) Now I just need to persuade
SWMBO - advice please (I jest) :-)

Thanks for your help Neil.
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

Hugh Jampton wrote:
I'm a total novice and will remain so :-)

I'm interested in the weather and am considering buying a weather station.
I'm looking at the wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2 + the WeatherLink data
logger.

OTT or what ?

TIA.
--
Regards,

Hugh Jampton

Hi Hugh

I'm very much a novice too and have just bought my first upgrade from a
very basic Oregon model. Nice though they are I couldn't afford £250+
for a Davis so went for a La Crosse WS1600 for just under £100 which I
got from ukweathershop. No remote data logging but that's not a big
deal at the moment - it does rainfall, temp, humidity, wind speed every
4.5secs, all wireless.

Paul

On 17 Jan 2007 01:36:51 -0800, beatsys wrote:

I'm very much a novice too and have just bought my first upgrade from a
very basic Oregon model. Nice though they are I couldn't afford £250+
for a Davis so went for a La Crosse WS1600 for just under £100 which I
got from ukweathershop. No remote data logging but that's not a big
deal at the moment - it does rainfall, temp, humidity, wind speed every
4.5secs, all wireless.

Thanks for that Paul. I've got the La Crosse WS-8610 it's a wireless
temperature and humidity thingy with data logging. Data logging worked fine
until I got a new (Dell) PC with no serial port :-( Tried a conversion
thingy - serial to USB but that didn't work - since found out that it won't
:-( Only other thing left is to fit a new card with serial port to my PC
and I don't want to do that.

Seems that only Davis do USB connections to the PC - I could be wrong.
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Regards,

Hugh Jampton