[talkabout]

Yeah, i bought a pole in Homebase but you do get a small two piece pole (about 2 ft) with the station that i used to attach to the main pole. This is my second station, the first lasted two years and started playing up. For the money you pay its a great starter station but i would eventually like to get a Davis Weather Station. It will provide you with enough stats to keep any geek happy

[Rooy]

Originally Posted by talkabout

Yeah, i bought a pole in Homebase but you do get a small two piece pole (about 2 ft) with the station that i used to attach to the main pole. This is my second station, the first lasted two years and started playing up. For the money you pay its a great starter station but i would eventually like to get a Davis Weather Station. It will provide you with enough stats to keep any geek happy

Thanks for all the info , think im going to pick one up.

[Fuh Q]

Mine arrived today . I wont get a chance to set it up until the weekend.

How far away from the house does it need to be ?
How high does it need to be ?

(No, I have not read the instructions yet)

[riffmongous]

Here's my weather station

Obviously I don't own it, I use it and am responsible for it so it's as good as mine



there is actually more out of shot too

[missfarmer]

Originally Posted by Fuh Q

Mine arrived today . I wont get a chance to set it up until the weekend.

How far away from the house does it need to be ?
How high does it need to be ?

(No, I have not read the instructions yet)

Still waiting on mine

[joujoujou]

Originally Posted by Fuh Q

[...]
How far away from the house does it need to be ?
How high does it need to be ?

[...]

It's important to have temperature unit couple of meters apart from building (IMO at least 3 meters) to have proper readings. Not higher than 2 meters above ground level.

But wind gauge should be as high as possible (well, reasonably high ).

They're all wired up together, so out-of-a-box cables are quite short tbh.

I've wind gauge 1.7m above roof, temp gauge and rain gauge on the pole in my garden. Bought 25m of standard telephone cable and cable coupler to have them connected.

Everything works perfectly.

[mountainy man]

Mine arrived today! have got it set up, was a bit fidly but managed it. The instructions are a bit crap. I have attached it to my hen run at about 2.5m from the ground.

I am trying to get to grips with the display thing, have figure out mos stuff but can anyone explain the "Tendancy" feature for me please.

Have got it conected to the pc now and its great so far.

Also am very impressed with the speed of the delivery and the fact that the courier found me at all this is a first for any courier, usually have to find them lol.

[Kippure]

http://www.biosexactly.com/Bios%20Ex...atweather.html

Anyone tryed Bios weather instruments?

[joujoujou]

At least one of them BIOS (did not check all) is a clone of FineOffset sold by maplins.

[riffmongous]

Originally Posted by mountainy man

I am trying to get to grips with the display thing, have figure out mos stuff but can anyone explain the "Tendancy" feature for me please.

I'm assuming it refers to the pressure tendency, which is basically how the atmospheric pressure has changed in the last 3 hours. So the general rule of thumb is low pressure = bad weather and high pressure = good weather. So if you are at around 1010hPa pressure and the tendency is downward and stays that way you could guess that bad weather is on the way, if its upwards then some good weather. Of course its far more complicated than that and you cant really tell without looking at an actual regional pressure map, but its supposed to just give you an idea.

Combining it with the wind direction will tell you a bit more too, as again, generally, west wind means wet and mild, north cold, east cold in winter, warmer in summer, south warm. So decreasing pressure tendency and a SW wind would point to a low pressure system coming in off the atlantic.

[Irish Steve]

For all the new users, a quick update for you.

There is an excellent alternative to the Easyweather application available from Sandaysoft, it does work with the Maplin stations

Cumulus is the software, it's at This Page , and in answer to the inevitable question, No it's not my page, and the only involvement I have is as a user of the software.

[Fuh Q]

Put up the weather station today, all working well and no problems.
Its probably not the best place for it as its a bit close to the roof of the shed but its the only place in my garden where it will get the wind from all sides.

[riffmongous]

Originally Posted by Fuh Q

Put up the weather station today, all working well and no problems.
Its probably not the best place for it as its a bit close to the roof of the shed but its the only place in my garden where it will get the wind from all sides.

Looks great! It makes me want to buy a private one if I had somewhere to put it.

One thing just to bear in mind is that the height where the sensor is installed is important if you want to compare it to other measurements. Temperature measurements are standardized at 2m for example.

[Chris_5339762]

I'm in an apartment and have mine in the corner of the balcony. Not ideal, but an interesting data collection thing in its own right. We did have to oil the moving parts though as there was a LOT of friction in it when we bought it.

[vonbarracuda]

Have mine on my apartment balcony too, only downside it only gets wind from the front and right I building