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Too_Many_Tools wrote:

I am looking for any suggestions as to reliable inexpensive electronic
weather instruments.

With several units that I have tested from places like Target, Walmart,
Radio Shack I find that they are not repeatable, readings drift and
will die when the weather gets cold.

Has anyone found a source or brand that they have had good success
with?

Any leads or links to building your own instrumentation?

Thanks

TMT


"reliable" and "inexpensive" are at best orthogonal, if not downright
contradictory...

I just want the stuff to work. Had a heathkit weather station for a
number of years, but when I worked 2m packet, it thought I was on
jupiter -- temperatures zoomed down and barometric pressure went
really, really high (and that was *after* I put RF bypassing on a lot
of high Z nodes, and shielded the thing).

I've had no trouble with the Davis Instruments stuff. Currently run
Vantage Pro2 stations at a number of locations, using the Weather
Display software.

It's not cheap, but it works.

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