Thank you very much for this interesting input. I doubt I have the skill to make these devices. I program in Python but am an electronics ignoramus. I may have to buy ready-made.
Our house is in a protected bay on the leeward side of Stuart Island and rarely, perhaps never, gets enough sustained wind to warrent a turbine. The uninhabited windward side of the island is at the base of Bute Inlet. In winter when the north wind blows off the mountains and down the inlet it can be very cold (for the coast) and the wind can be as much as 100 mph sustained. A wind turbine would be effective. But because of the "Butes" and because the windward side is Crown Land (government owned) no one lives there. This is a great forum. Thanks, Peter On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:48 PM, p4trykx <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 29-10-2011 o 21:02:26 Peter Hollenbeck <[email protected]> > napisał(a): > > > measure of total wind past a point during a period of time. I think I > > could get from Hobby Boards an anemometer and a counter. Then count the > > revolutions of the anemometer during a day and convert that to a number, > > perhaps miles, that indicates the total wind for the day. > > You could build a anemometer form ping-pong balls and attach a megnet to > the axis. > You can then read the revolutions without contact by a hall effect sensor. > I think those those sensors have integrated opamp so they output could be > feed directly to ds2423 counter. > > I for time measurement you can use DS1904. It's an iButton RTS with it's > own power. You can change your system to a wireless router with USB(for > cameras) and if it wakes up you read time form iButton. > Owfs runs very good on OpenWrt. > If you know how strong the winds is You could consider if it's worth > adding some small wind turbine. > > > > > -- > p4trykx > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Get your Android app more play: Bring it to the BlackBerry PlayBook > in minutes. BlackBerry App World™ now supports Android™ Apps > for the BlackBerry® PlayBook™. Discover just how easy and simple > it is! http://p.sf.net/sfu/android-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Owfs-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers >
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