Weather Stations? Anyone have one on the farm?

[oosik]

Mike, unless I'm mistaken, most all wx stations have backup battery power inside each of the individual units. You might want to take this into consideration when deciding where to mount the unit. I, initially, put mine on my 30 foot tower and moved it to a 10 foot pole on the porch the first time I had to replace all the batteries.

Scooby, thanks for the info. I figured they would be very expensive, but still just wanted to look at them. I've already blown my wad on tractor implements for this and many years to come.

Coyote, I think I will try teflon or silicone spray as you have suggested. Hair dryer taped to a broom handle works too but only for a short time, ha,ha.

 

[kubota4me]

I have a Davis and absolutely love it. This is an example of the web pages you can publish and access anywhere while away from home.

Davis | WeatherLink - My Weather Page

 

[Scooby074]

Mike, unless I'm mistaken, most all wx stations have backup battery power inside each of the individual units. You might want to take this into consideration when deciding where to mount the unit. I, initially, put mine on my 30 foot tower and moved it to a 10 foot pole on the porch the first time I had to replace all the batteries.

Scooby, thanks for the info. I figured they would be very expensive, but still just wanted to look at them. I've already blown my wad on tractor implements for this and many years to come.

Coyote, I think I will try teflon or silicone spray as you have suggested. Hair dryer taped to a broom handle works too but only for a short time, ha,ha.

RE: Batteries.
The Davis VP2 uses a Lithium (?) cell however it has a solar panel that keeps things charged up and powers it whenever there is light. Battery condition is monitored by the unit and it will tell you when a batt is bad. That said. Im going on 3 maybe 4 years on this battery and it is still OK. Battery use on a Davis unit is not really an issue.

When it comes to site selection, the Davis feeds data from the sensors back to the transmitter/battery via "telephone" style cables. If I was to guess, Id say that the cables are maybe 20' long. So you can separate your rain gauge and your anemometer up to 20' odd feet from your transmitter.

There are specific installation heights and locations for weather instruments if you want to get technical. Going off the top of my head, a rain gauge should be like 4-5' off the ground and the anemometer something like 20' in the air... The cable lengths on the Davis VP allow you to site your setup correctly and still connect everything back to the transmitter.

There are also accessory transmitters available if you cant mount both the instruments within reach of the original transmitter or if you want a second station setup in another location.

Farms can use this second transmitter to take data from the field and transmit it back to base, information like leaf/soil moisture. They also make long range antennas to broadcast this field data over distance. Wireless & Cabled Professional Weather Stations for Agriculture by Davis