Here's what I posted on the APRSSIG yesterday: A quick update on my weather station project... it's coming along well, and I should have the first units shipping in time for Christmas. The pictures here show what should be pretty much the final hardware version:
http://n1vg.net/ads-ws1-rev1.jpg http://n1vg.net/ads-ws1-mast.jpg The wind/rain sensor installation is temporary in this picture and I haven't secured the cables yet. The kit comes with cable ties for that. The box contains temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity sensors. There's a 1/2" port on the left side, covered with a stainless steel mesh, that you can't see in the picture. This board revision includes 2 megabytes of flash memory. At the moment it's only used for voice sample storage (it has a vocabulary of a little over 200 words for reading weather conditions over the air) but eventually it'll be usable for data logging, too. It's got a solid state relay rated at 8 amps for controlling radio power. In the pictured setup it's powering an old Alinco DJ-F1T and it's working great. It's drawing about 18 mA, but I should be able to cut that by 50% or more as I get some software power save options going. At this point there's mostly just software work and component sourcing to be done. Those 3.5mm pluggable terminal blocks cost $16 each at Digi-Key and they've been the biggest headache so far, but I've found a source at a fraction of that and they'll be on the way here tomorrow. A bunch of the voice samples have to be re-recorded (thankfully it's not my voice in the production version) but that shouldn't take long. Retail price should be around $150 (assembled except for the wind/rain mast) with all of the sensors. I'll be documenting a demo installation in the coming week, with a complete solar powered station in an ammo can. Scott N1VG Mike Zwingl oe3mzc wrote: > > > > > Scott, > any update on this new weatherstation > > ADS-WS1 > > . > I am interested but > I could not find anything on argent datas website > vy 73 de Mike > oe3mzc > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Scott Miller <mailto:[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Sent:* Monday, November 02, 2009 10:33 PM > *Subject:* Re: [tracker2] Ultimate birthday gift. > > > > Glad to hear it. 21 of the ADS-WS1 v1.1 boards came in today. Got two > built, minus the terminal blocks and humidity sensors that I don't have > on hand. Some of the voice samples will need to be re-recorded, but > it's getting there. > > I'm going to have to nail down the feature set for the first firmware > release and get it finished up. If I wait until I've got all of the > planned features implemented, it'll be May before I ship anything. > > Scott > > Jon wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >And of course, everyone's going to buy an ADS-WS1 weather station, > > >right? =] > > > > > >Scott > > > > Yup, > > de John > > EI7IG > > > > > >
