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Post by sparepart on May 14, 2018 1:15:30 GMT
Weather Stations in the house or studio:
Anyone have one? If so what works and what has made a one-way trip to the e-waste pile?
SP
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Post by sparepart on May 20, 2018 1:17:18 GMT
The CDL team made a decision to proceed with deploying a web-enabled weather sensor. Two drivers: - We wanted (hyper) local weather information in the classroom and CDL studio. They are in the same building
- We also needed to provide data to overlay on one of our cameras that support another program that is on site (they operate equipment remotely)
As usual, we are on a budget that resembles negative infinity (with apologies to John Wallis, D.Th.) , so used and donated parts are the flavor of the day! For the folks interested in the nuts & bolts: - Instrumentation - A used and abused Vaisala WXT510 and a pair of Hadar 444a tipping bucket rain gauges (we need to make housing and funnels for the rain gauges).
- Hardware - a Supermicro SuperServer 5015A-EHF-D525 computer with 4GB of ram and a 500GB drive.
- We put a PEX2S952 serial card in the computer. This particular card can feed power to the WXT510 on a spare pin of the serial cable, avoiding a external power supply
- Software - Opensource WeeWX on Linux.
  If you have a spare PC floating around, this concept might be usable at your station. WeeWX supports a wide variety of consumer and professional weather stations. SP |
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Post by Admin on May 20, 2018 3:43:33 GMT
SP, For a few years I ran a Davis Vantage Pro 2 which was mounted on a 10 foot mast on my second floor deck. Then while I was working in Michigan for a few years my wife hired a contractor to replace the railings on the deck. The contractor dropped the weather station 20 feet from its install point to the ground, wrecking it and sadly she did not hold him accountable, but it was a great weather station that did all I wished it to do including uploading its info to both NOAA and Weather Underground. So when I found out I bought this one as recommended by ALPB member Druid Hills Radio": www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01HH4WZXG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 . It was much less expensive and with less features but it works well and provides decent weather info to Weather Underground. My station's ID is KPAHONEY17 . I would recommend either but the Davis is definitely better. Jim Weather Stations in the house or studio: Anyone have one? If so what works and what has made a one-way trip to the e-waste pile? SP |
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