If you do not want instant read out try TinyTags for T and RH
scattered around your orchard. They have built in loggers and lots of
storage e.g. TinyTag Plus 2
http://www.geminidataloggers.com/data-loggers

Andy


On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:56:02 +1100, "David Hare-Scott"
wrote:

I am on a rural property with extensive orchards and gardens in eastern
Australia. Temperature and rainfall are of quite some interest to me and I
wouldn't mind having data for wind and humidity, so far I have been
monitoring and manually recording rainfall and temperature. I am
considering some form of automation at this stage I don't know yet how
elaborate I want the gear to be, it would depend on price to some extent.
It would also be handy if the data could be downloaded to my computer as
easily as possible. I am more interested in the equipment being reliable
and no fuss rather than the ultimate in accuracy, trends and seasonal
patterns are more value than knowing the temperature to +- 0.1C.

Can anybody give me some advice on how to approach the issue and which
brands/styles of equipment are reliable and good value?

Is there a FAQ that I can read?

David

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 at 19:01:12, Alan Gardiner
wrote in uk.sci.weather :



I tried one of those, but it crashed my PC.

I had that problem with my original serial-to-USB adapter. There seem to be
some poorly designed unit out there which is why I remarked that the
Maplin's one was OK.

Except that the one that crashed my PC was *from* Maplins...
--
Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)

On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:36:07 +0000, Paul Hyett wrote:

On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 at 19:01:12, Alan Gardiner
wrote in uk.sci.weather :



I tried one of those, but it crashed my PC.

I had that problem with my original serial-to-USB adapter. There seem to be
some poorly designed unit out there which is why I remarked that the
Maplin's one was OK.

Except that the one that crashed my PC was *from* Maplins...

I got mine in the last nine months so it may be an updated model.

There is no doubt that these adapters can be problematic as I know someone
else who had to replace his original adapter for exactly the same reason.

Alan Gardiner
Chiswell Green, St Albans
101m ASL
13/02/2011 12:18:00
https://sites.google.com/site/alangardinersinfo/

On Feb 13, 12:21*pm, Alan Gardiner wrote:
I got mine in the last nine months so it may be an updated model.


Alan, as per my previous post, there is a definite problem with one or
two of the cheap AWS systems and serial-to-USB adapters because they
don't use the serial interface in a standard conventional way (ie how
the USB adapters are designed to expect the serial connections to
behave). So no USB adapter will work correctly with such systems. But
fortunately it's not a common problem and most better-designed AWS's
don't suffer the same issue.