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Gizmo

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Posted: 01:05pm 16 Jun 2009

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Jaycar (Australian electronics store ) have a new Weather Station with PC interface model and are selling the old model $70 off the regular price.

Cat Number XC-0330 is a wireless weather station, range of 60m ( this could be extended for sure ), measures wind speed, direction, temp, pressure, humidity, rainfall. And it has a PC interface and software to allow you to store records on your computer.

For $129 its good value, I ordered one today. Stock is low, mine had to come from another store. The new model is the XC-0348, about $200.

With any luck it will arive by the weekend, I'll mount the wind speed and direction sensor on my windmill mast about 1 meter below the blades.

Glenn

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Tinker

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Posted: 03:38pm 16 Jun 2009

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Glenn, good luck with the wind speed part. My mate got a wireless weather station for Christmas before last. All is still working except the wind speed which started making horrible bearing noises after about a year. It got so bad he had to gaffa tape the thing up.

I guess one cannot expect long life from a cheap gadget and presumably cheap bearings, just look at how much the anemometers on top of yacht masts cost.

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Posted: 09:32am 17 Jun 2009

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I have one like this model if it is a thermor but it is not a touch screen , the big draw back is the wind speed and direction update every 120sec and they are a nightmare to sync in the transmitter to the base station , I have been watching ebay and they sell a La Crosse WS-1510-iT , these units are real time and are not to badly priced @ $199.00 RRP and probably go for a fair bit less at auction..

I have not fully checked out the full details on this one but for a person of your ability Glenn I am sure you will make it work well...

PhillM ...Oz Wind Engineering..Wind Turbine Kits 500W - 5000W ~ F&P Dual Kits ~ GOE222Blades- Voltage Control Parts ------- Tower kits

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