Noticed that Costco has this unit on “coupon” starting this week. Makes the cost of the unit $194
My work has been making some noises about possibly having a local weather station to provide offical Corp weather… you would be suprised how many employees watch my weather station especially on hot days.
I figure this might be a cheap weather station ?? but does it work okay.
Not looking for much just the basics. They might go for this price range.
Just realized this is via their web store, not the local warehouse so the link is:
Hi
This is marketed in UK as 928.
I use this and although it doesn’t have the refinements of your Davis Pro, it is adequate for my needs. Connect to pc with 9 pin serial cable. With WD you can easily ‘tweak’ it to give fairly accurate results.
Your Costco price seems very low! Have just looked at the US Oregon site and they seem to charge about $450
I use the WMR928. It’s been up for 27 months now and other than changing batteries in the standalone units (not the ones with solar cell charging) it’s worked fine. It works well with WD and at $194 it’s a real bargain!
As you know, I also have the OS WMR-968. So far, I love my station! It is a very good back-up type system, if that’s what your using it for (although, that’s not only what it is good for). If you want to connect it to a computer, you’ll need a serial extension cable (as Brian said), also known as RS-232 extension cable. The only problem you may have, is that you’re probably going to have to build your own Stevensons Shield, because the weather station doesn’t come with one. Since you live in Arizona, you are ATLEAST going to have to build a Stevensons Shield, and may want to buy a solar hat fan to boot. Good luck with your setup! Oh, and be sure to ask questions and let us know how everything goes!
I have just got mine up & running using the excelent Cumulus freeware to log it to my web pages at www.mustbemad.com
One thing I’ve noticed, is that the unit does not seem to register an average wind speed - just the ‘Gust’ readings - whatever that means? The manual is silent on this.
I have turned on an option in Cumulus the weather program I’m running to calculate the average in the PC - so you will now see this in the graphs & stats.
Unfortunatley, the display on the 968 still shows zero.
I will get myself back up that mast & reset the anemometer head & see what happens - I think (though I may be wrong?) that the head works out the average & sends it to the display, as opposed to the display working it out itself.
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One thing I’ve noticed, is that the unit does not seem to register an average wind speed - just the ‘Gust’ readings - whatever that means?
When on the average display (tapping the wind section so it says ‘average’) this is always set to zero, despite the ‘gust’ display showing the current wind speed.
I think the anemometer sender may need a reset - I will climb my ladder again tonight & try it…#
Oh, um. Do you still have the instruction manual that came with the weather station? Yours may have a phone number in yours. The toll-free number that is in the instruction manual is: “800-853-8883” and the e-mail address is: “[email protected]”.
To save excessive climbing of ladders it may help f you used an extension cable from the anemometer to the transmitter I use one on one of my units. Bought it from the weather shop - about
