Researching these little fellas.
This one seems to be what I want and about all I’m prepared to pay.
http://www.monaxtestandweather.com.au/aercus-instruments-ws3083-pro-wireless-weather-station/
Thoughts? I’m looking at you Stumpy.
Peak Warming Man said:
Researching these little fellas.This one seems to be what I want and about all I’m prepared to pay.
http://www.monaxtestandweather.com.au/aercus-instruments-ws3083-pro-wireless-weather-station/
Thoughts? I’m looking at you Stumpy.
Get one that connects with a site like wundergound which wil reset and callibrate your instrument. Unless the instruments are kept in a stevensons box, you are wasting your time, in the main.
Peak Warming Man said:
Researching these little fellas.This one seems to be what I want and about all I’m prepared to pay.
http://www.monaxtestandweather.com.au/aercus-instruments-ws3083-pro-wireless-weather-station/
Thoughts? I’m looking at you Stumpy.
What will you be using it for? Just curiosity or determining watering regimes?
Have a look at the software supplied with it and get one that is user friendly.
Wrt a stephensens box, i wouldn’t waste money on one, your plants won’t be sitting in one, so positioning the sensor in an area that is most indicative of the area you are looking at will be muxh more suitable
Stumpy_seahorse said:
What will you be using it for? Just curiosity or determining watering regimes?
Have a look at the software supplied with it and get one that is user friendly.Wrt a stephensens box, i wouldn’t waste money on one, your plants won’t be sitting in one, so positioning the sensor in an area that is most indicative of the area you are looking at will be muxh more suitable
Ah. It is for his plants? I just lick my finger and test the air for that.
roughbarked said:
Stumpy_seahorse said:
What will you be using it for? Just curiosity or determining watering regimes?
Have a look at the software supplied with it and get one that is user friendly.Wrt a stephensens box, i wouldn’t waste money on one, your plants won’t be sitting in one, so positioning the sensor in an area that is most indicative of the area you are looking at will be muxh more suitable
Ah. It is for his plants? I just lick my finger and test the air for that.
No no, it’s just a general weather station I’m after.
Peak Warming Man said:
roughbarked said:
Stumpy_seahorse said:
What will you be using it for? Just curiosity or determining watering regimes?
Have a look at the software supplied with it and get one that is user friendly.Wrt a stephensens box, i wouldn’t waste money on one, your plants won’t be sitting in one, so positioning the sensor in an area that is most indicative of the area you are looking at will be muxh more suitable
Ah. It is for his plants? I just lick my finger and test the air for that.
No no, it’s just a general weather station I’m after.
Well, if you aren’t using a Stevenson’s box, at least situate the thermometers in a south facing verandah. The readings will be stable. Out in the weather, the weather station may be as much as five degrees out. This can be remedied by hooking up to a weather station like wunderground which is capable of resetting the instruments daily by satellite.
Mr buffy got a Digitech weather station thingy model XC0346. He paid about that amount. I rarely bother to look at it. We’ve had an ancient thermometer outside the backdoor, in the shade, for as long as we’ve been here, so I just use that. The instrument catching the information for the weather station is up on the roof, so the anemometer can work. But it rarely agrees with the BoM readings for towns around here, and sometimes when it is blowing hard, it reads breeze. Oh, and it’s hopeless at giving rain readings…partly because we have been drastically short of rain, but also we suspect the ants have nested in it. One of the roof wobblers (for fire) stopped working and when the plumber went up to sort it out he had to tip out the ants.
Anyway, my advice would be to put it somewhere you can get to it for “maintenance” – critter removal. My ordinary raingauge on the fence tends to collect spiders in dry spells.
buffy said:
Mr buffy got a Digitech weather station thingy model XC0346. He paid about that amount. I rarely bother to look at it. We’ve had an ancient thermometer outside the backdoor, in the shade, for as long as we’ve been here, so I just use that. The instrument catching the information for the weather station is up on the roof, so the anemometer can work. But it rarely agrees with the BoM readings for towns around here, and sometimes when it is blowing hard, it reads breeze. Oh, and it’s hopeless at giving rain readings…partly because we have been drastically short of rain, but also we suspect the ants have nested in it. One of the roof wobblers (for fire) stopped working and when the plumber went up to sort it out he had to tip out the ants.
Anyway, my advice would be to put it somewhere you can get to it for “maintenance” – critter removal. My ordinary raingauge on the fence tends to collect spiders in dry spells.
Yep.
>Anyway, my advice would be to put it somewhere you can get to it for “maintenance” – critter removal. My ordinary raingauge on the fence tends to collect spiders in dry spells.
that’d explain the lack of rain, how much more than a couple of dew drops would a spider need.
buffy said:
The instrument catching the information for the weather station is up on the roof, so the anemometer can work. But it rarely agrees with the BoM readings for towns around here, and sometimes when it is blowing hard, it reads breeze. Oh, and it’s hopeless at giving rain readings…
Do they need to be calibrated for altitude?
I seem to recall someone telling me that….
Get a better rain gauge. 200cm² is better than 50cm².
Good
roughbarked said:
Stumpy_seahorse said:
What will you be using it for? Just curiosity or determining watering regimes?
Have a look at the software supplied with it and get one that is user friendly.Wrt a stephensens box, i wouldn’t waste money on one, your plants won’t be sitting in one, so positioning the sensor in an area that is most indicative of the area you are looking at will be muxh more suitable
Ah. It is for his plants? I just lick my finger and test the air for that.
I don’t know why the mention of Stevenson’s box. The weather station as pictured already has a Stevenson’s screen around the temperature and humidity sensors.
mollwollfumble said:
roughbarked said:
Stumpy_seahorse said:
What will you be using it for? Just curiosity or determining watering regimes?
Have a look at the software supplied with it and get one that is user friendly.Wrt a stephensens box, i wouldn’t waste money on one, your plants won’t be sitting in one, so positioning the sensor in an area that is most indicative of the area you are looking at will be muxh more suitable
Ah. It is for his plants? I just lick my finger and test the air for that.
I don’t know why the mention of Stevenson’s box. The weather station as pictured already has a Stevenson’s screen around the temperature and humidity sensors.
In most cases, I don’t clink on the links. Many weather stations don’t have the screens.