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Richard
01-03-2012, 02:50 PM
About 6 years ago I bought a La Crosse PWS for about $150. I think it was a good value for the price, but now I would like something with more capabilities in terms of analytics, connectivity, and interoperability.
At the moment I'm fixated on these components from Davis Instruments:
6152 Vantage Pro2 station (http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/weather_product.asp?pnum=06152)
6510USB WeatherLink (http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/weather_product.asp?pnum=06510USB)
6511 Agricultural Software Module (http://www.davisnet.com/weather/products/weather_product.asp?pnum=06511)
Shopping around, you could purchase it for US $700. If you needed to measure evapotranspiration, then you'd pay another $500 for soil sensors.
I'm wondering how this compares with what some of you folks are doing?
sunfish
01-03-2012, 03:02 PM
That sounds better than what I have.My personal weather station
http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=47474&size=1 (http://www.bananas.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=47474&ppuser=2868)
momoese
01-03-2012, 03:22 PM
Mine
http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m161/momoese/2012-01-03121613.jpg
harveyc
01-03-2012, 05:58 PM
I've made some references in other posts to thinking about this for some time. I can probably justify it more than most folks but really think it's just one of my vices to seek more information than I really need. I've sort of thought lately about getting the Ambient Weather setup since it's done okay for quite a few folks and is about !$155 shipped with the solar shield. It was $50 more a week or two before Christmas.
I know of two folks with the Davis system who are quite happy with them.
turtile
01-03-2012, 07:31 PM
Go with Davis! The quality and precision are great. I have both the Vantage Pro2 and the USB data link and it's been working perfect for 5 years.
My station is here:
Weather Station History : Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KDELEWES7)
and the old data from before I moved:
Weather Station History : Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KDELEWES2)
The Hollyberry Lady
01-04-2012, 11:13 PM
Hey I recently bought a couple of these as gifts...one for my grandfather and one for Bob. I got them the National Geographic weather systems that measure wind speed as well. Both of them say they love it and it works great! :D I guess Bob had wanted one for years but never got around to getting one.
I'm gonna get me one of these next. They're just very cool weather toys.
: )
palmtree
01-05-2012, 01:19 AM
I have a davis and Im really happy with it. Its the first weather station to give me accurate readings and I have gone through many weather stations. Assembly was very simple and I have had it for over 6 months with no problems as of yet!
Good luck!
PS. all the averages below are from my weather station in my yard.
Nicolas Naranja
03-03-2012, 05:01 PM
So the weather station down the street form me is now off line so I can no longer check the weather while I am gone. I'd like a weather station that Is wireless so I can put it out back away from the house. I'd also like to put it on wunderground.
palmtree
03-03-2012, 09:17 PM
The Davis Weather station that I have is wireless, and I'm almost positive that you can connect it with wunderground, but the catch is that you have to buy an expensive wire and software in order to get the data onto your computer and that alone will cost you almost as much as the weather station (about 200 dollars for the wire and software I think). There might be another way to get the data onto wunderground with this weatherstation, but Im not sure.
Bradford
03-07-2012, 12:24 AM
I'm lo-tech, but I thought it would be cool to have a station since weather has always interested me.
http://www.condosinthekeys.com/fun.weather%20conch.gif
turtile
03-14-2012, 09:34 PM
The Davis Weather station that I have is wireless, and I'm almost positive that you can connect it with wunderground, but the catch is that you have to buy an expensive wire and software in order to get the data onto your computer and that alone will cost you almost as much as the weather station (about 200 dollars for the wire and software I think). There might be another way to get the data onto wunderground with this weatherstation, but Im not sure.
You need to purchase a data logger for the station which comes with software. Weather Underground provides a plug-in for the software. I got the USB data logger for $130 on Ebay but that was a long time ago.
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