John,

Thankyou for that explanation, it's cleared a few things up in my mind, and
I guess a few others.

Regards

Keith (Southend)

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"John Dann" wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 18:24:59 +0100, "Keith \(Southend\)"
wrote:

I was wondering, what would be the minimum purchase required to upgrade
from
a WMII to a Vantage Pro?
1. Can you buy parts individually?

Well yes but only as the larger consituent parts/assemblies, ie
console/anemometer/ISS but it's not a very cost-effective approach.

[ISS being the 'Integrated Sensor Suite' comprising rain gauge +
temp/hum sensors + solar/UV sensors if fitted. The separate anemometer
is also supplied with the ISS].

2. Would the WMII's rain gauge, temperature/humidity sensors and wind
instruments plug into the Vantage pro monitoring system?

Yes, but (and it's a big but) the VP stations integrate the data
streams from the various sensors in a circuit board in the ISS rather
than in the console. What this means in practice is that you need the
VP ISS to perform the data integration and the VP console to read the
resulting data stream. In other words, there's sadly not much
practical benefit to plugging existing eg WMII sensors into a VP
station because you still effectively need most of the components of a
full VP station to integrate and read the data.

At the moment I have no way of logging sunshine, this would be one
benifit
to me, also the addition of the grass minimum fitted into the logger.
Although I don't see this in the Weatherlink 5.4 software.


The data fields for supplementary sensors such as solar radiation, UV,
aditional temp/hum sensors etc only fully show up when those specific
sensors are enabled in the Weatherlink Setup screens. They are not
activated and visible in a standard/default WL installation.

John Dann
www.weatherstations.co.uk

Simon Gardner wrote:

Does such a 10m mast require planning permission?

Not sure about planning permission, but also check if you live close to
an airport - there are restrictions on the height of masts/aerials/etc.
for the area immediately surrounding airports. I don't know the height
restrictions off-hand, though (they may be more than 10m).

Jonathan