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Thread Number: 74191
/ Tag: Other Home Products or Autos
Weather gizmos/home stations |
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| Post# 979797 , Reply# 1 1/24/2018 at 20:45 (2,283 days old) by Maytagbear (N.E. Ohio) | ||
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I wish.......................... Jim Cantore was my home weather station, but I hear he bats for the other team. Oh, well. Lawrence/Maytagbear | ||
Post# 979809 , Reply# 3 1/24/2018 at 22:00 (2,283 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I have recorded daily weather as to what it is and high and low from the NWS at BIA. But if some one wants to put a cam to record the sunset, fine.
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Post# 979824 , Reply# 4 1/24/2018 at 23:56 (2,283 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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 My sister gave me a Smart Gear Weather Station a few years ago. I use it with a 5-volt power adapter but it also runs on AAA batteries. It's pretty basic. Indoor temp and humidity, outdoor temp and humidity (via wireless remote sending unit with range up to 200'), day, date, time, (including an alarm/snooze feature) and a forecast graphic, all displayed on a LCD screen with two brightness settings. Bonus is a USB port that I use to charge my phone.
Sometimes I think it reads a little high on the outdoor temp, and for sure it reads high on the indoor temp because I have the display propped up against the side of a shelf and I think it generates enough heat to skew the indoor conditions.
Also, the forecast graphic is stuck on the "everything" display, with a cloud, another cloud with rain and lightning coming out of it, and a sun. I haven't bothered to unplug it to see if it will reset. Due to a marine influence around 85% of the time, even when the forecast display worked properly it never was very accurate.
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Post# 979875 , Reply# 5 1/25/2018 at 11:27 (2,283 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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My bf gave me an Acu-Rite system for Christmas. It has been pretty accurate. I did have to calibrate the indoor temperature as I found it was reading high compared to the several other thermometers that I have in the house including a coupe of others in the same room. The outdoor temperature reads comparable to my other thermometer with outdoor sensor. I have the sensor hanging on a 4 inch wire suspended from the eave of the house, out of direct sunlight on the north side of the house and protected from rain/snow. The Acu-Rite records highest and lowest indoor and outdoor temps. and humidity every day...it resets at midnight. It also records the date of the highest/lowest temps & humidity from the last time it was reset. It has 3 levels of brightness as well as autodim, adapter and battery backup.
Gary
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| Post# 979876 , Reply# 6 1/25/2018 at 11:35 (2,283 days old) by washman (o) | ||
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here's the weather shield This has made a huge difference in outdoor accuracy as it keeps the bright sun off the sensor.
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Post# 979897 , Reply# 8 1/25/2018 at 14:26 (2,283 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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I have numerous wireless indoor/outdoor units around. Nothing really fancy though, just fairly basic . I usually find them on my rounds of thrift stores and clearance sections in other stores for little cost. I do have one called UPM, wireless weather station which I bought oh geeze maybe 5 or more years ago, it stores hi's and lows, humidity in and out etc.. and it seems pretty accurate, plus I don't think in all these years I've changed the batteries in and outside more than once, it just keeps going and going and going .
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Post# 980065 , Reply# 9 1/27/2018 at 01:40 (2,281 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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I don't have any weather equipment-nor does the station---at this stage everyone just looks it up on the computer,pad,or phone under NOAA. | ||
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Post# 980189 , Reply# 10 1/28/2018 at 03:58 (2,280 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Post# 980196 , Reply# 11 1/28/2018 at 06:17 (2,280 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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My in-laws had some barometer-thermometer-hygrometer on their table by the couch in a small den, made by 'Oregon', and the sensor for the whole thing sat outside the front door, and they had to leave it behind when they moved out...
In one of my electronics classes in trade school, we attempted to build a weather station as a side project... -- Dave | ||
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