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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 |
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![]() 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 |
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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 |
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![]() "Hugh Jampton" wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 |
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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. -- Regards, Hugh Jampton |
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