On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:40:42 +1200 Andrew Errington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:53, Nick Rout wrote: > > Following on from the weather station thread on clug, i was wondering if > > anyone knows of any weather station units available in NZ. I think DSE > > used to sell one that had a serial port, but I cannot see that one on > > their website any more. Of course it will be connected to a linux box! > > Yes, the DSE one is definitely no longer available. IIRC it was a > rebranded Oregon Scientific unit which is no longer manufactured. > > > thats the sort of thing I want, consumer grade, in the order of $100.00. > > Good luck. The DSE one cost $499, but measured temperature, humidity, > barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, and rainfall. It calculated > other information such as dew point and wind chill, and did have a nice > console and display and a serial output. I wouldn't expect anything else > to be much cheaper, even with fewer features. ahhh i was obviously deluded about pricing :-) > > A local (Christchurch) weather station was built and is run by Jeff > Northcott. His page details some of the instruments he has built, and some > he has bought: > > http://weather.northcott.co.nz/ > > This link is a collection of weather stations around New Zealand, each one > having various levels of detail: > > http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/tmcgavin/current_nzweather.html been there, found this http://maybros.d2g.com/weather/ (Lyttelton, hey its where your weather comes from too you know :-) > > and there are many other similar projects around the world (Google is, of > course, your friend). > > I am using Dallas one-wire temperature sensors for measuring, er, > temperature, but I have built an anemometer with the bearings from an old > CD-ROM drive spindle motor and three ping-pong ball halves. I have also > built a wind-vane using a bearing from a hard drive read head arm. Both of > these instruments need tweaking before they are deployed. A rain gauge can > be built fairly easily, and I plan to do that after the anemometer and wind > vane are working. > > Jaycar (www.jaycar.co.nz) sell consumer rain gauges, and they and Dick > Smith have desk-accessory style humidity and temperature sensors. I don't > think they have serial outputs though. There is also the Dallas One-Wire > Weather Station (http://www.ibutton.com/weather/) that is attractive, but a > bit pricey, and has to be ordered from overseas. > > Jeff Northcott was thinking of adding an FAQ page to his weather website > because he keeps getting email asking about this very topic. I will draw > his attention to this thread. Hopefully the Slashd^H^H^H^H^H^H CLUG effect > won't crash his server. > > HTH, > > Andy -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
