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has the vane been installed on the spindle correctly or slipped lose maybe worth checking
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Well I am feeling left out, I have been waiting all week for the "heavy snow weather warning" beast from east, what do I get up here in Orkney, one inch of level snow,and that's melting quickly, why that needs a weather warning I don't know.
I am enjoying the pictures though so keep them coming, I'm very jealous.
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if it is always off by the same amount have a look at the calibrate option.
if you can adjust for that much error on the console?
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I think its the same as this one fine offset and I think the usb is just for factory update and doesn't work but there is some software called weather link ip that may help.
Your best bet is to contact aercus and ask them.
there is also the the maplin version called n23dq their website has lots of questions that may help.
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what model ? I didn't think they had usb
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4 hours ago, snowidea said:
@Ruzzi. I have to ask, what's an ST?
Sexy Transport ?
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I'm sorry to say I have returned two of these stations to maplins both with faulty temp sensors. Luckily both in warranty, so I got a refund for the second replacement unit
and I got a vantage vue instead, so far it's been a lot more reliable.
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with that height and having it portable, I would think sectional pole with guy ropes is the only option.
how temporary is the installation going to be?
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Thanks everybody, at least I have not lost a part of my iss
. I will try some tape over the battery cover and see if that stops the water getting in.
condensation draining / drying is a thought, but as it is already wet and corroded in the battery compartment it isn't working, even if that's how it was intended to.
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Hi all, quick question, should the vantage vue iss have a seal around the battery cover?
Mine hasn't and looks like it should have, but I can't remember if it ever did. I changed the battery and found water was getting in and corroding the contacts.
Is this a known thing and has anybody got any good ideas how to stop it or where to get a seal if it should have one?
Thanks
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The maplin N23dq is also worth a look if reliability or accuracy aren't too important the reviews are mixed, Maplins are good at swapping the faulty ones.
Now that makes them sound bad, but they do everything, are easy to set up and have good displays and internet connectivity out of the box.
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Is it just the internal memory filling up and over writing itself. The only sure way to keep long term data is to connect it to a pc and or upload to the internet like the weather underground
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I found this while looking for a new weather station
http://www.foshk.com/Wifi_Weather_Station/WH2900.html
Has anybody found them for sale anywhere or have any thoughts on them I am hoping they are an improvement
over the hp1000 and 1001 by the same company.
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not as long as you would like but with a little searching how about 5 or 6 inch steel that should make it straight and ridged
https://www.themetalstore.co.uk/products/6-metre-length-10swg-mild-steel-tube
Anyway the height you want is going to give problems of one sort or another so you need to decide what your compromise is
cost, bendy, problems erecting, etc there will be an answer but finding it may take a while.
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you made me smile, you can afford a vp2 and think scaffold pole is expensive!
any sort of permanent tower will almost certainly need planning permission so other than better poles I'm not sure there is anything else, maybe look at some ham radio towers/masts
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8 hours ago, Pixel said:
Oh dear I’ve broken my weatherstation - please help!
have a look at the maplins website the questions for the n23dq have your solution, spooks can send you a working firmware
or just wait for maplins.
you may have to change the date in the settings file it only appears to load new firmware by date not revision number.
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54 minutes ago, Pixel said:
^Mapantz^ Great to hear you are getting on well with the Weather Ranger, thanks for all the info. I have also checked out your site - very good. The Metoetemplate looks like a lot of fun. Very intrigued to know how you've changed the graphics display.. I guess I'd need to be running windows to do that.
Just found the W8681 pro (another rebranded W-1001) here in the UK for £190 so will go for that.
Many thanks
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there is some info on the net that says they don't all have memory card slots so watch out if that is important to you.
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have a look at maplin n23dq it looks like the same thing and is a bit cheaper also maplin are ok with customer service and returns if needed.
there is other versions of this unit on amazon and the internet I think they are all clones of this
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the hills above kinlochleven this morning
all gone now though
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As a follow on from this topic
I can report september has not been dry here,
I have a total of 190mm of rain for september in north ballachulish, and the garden is a swomp
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Now I don't know much about this topic other than what I have picked up from tv. but looking at that picture is the cold blue atlantic spot the run off from greenlands ice sheet and is the warm spot where the gulf stream is now coming up against that cold zone. That very hot spot right at the top has to be an error, doesn't it?
This is all guess work so don't shoot me down.
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meteor more then likely
I suspect the hour long reference is the approx time it was spotted
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I'm not so sure that aural activity is and better over Canada at the same latitude.
Remember the Earth has a ~ 23° tilt. The solar disturbance will not target the exact North pole.
This is not a 'circular' pattern.
Also the earth rotates 'under' those graphic displays. So, if you observe them at, let's say 1:00pm local time as opposed to 3:00am local time the whole observing time will be biased or skewed.
It's just one of those things where the observance of local time will seem to appear to favor or not favor a certain event.
Just a thought. :lol:
I had thought about all the things you mention as possible causes but the problem is (and correct me if i'm wrong) that during the coarse of a year canada
doesn't go anywhere that the uk doesn't follow as far as tilt and possition relative to the pole/ auroral oval is concerned and I have very rarely seen northern lights
reported as far south as 60 degrees in the uk but I cant say the same for canada.
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I have been watching the aurora prediction/ activity charts such as this one http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/pmap/gif/pmapN.gif
for a long time now. I think I have noticed that the activity is very often lower than the 60 deg line of latitude over canada and
the US but it seldom gets to or passes this latitude over the UK.
my question is why? or have I imagined it has anybody else noticed it
any input welcome thanks
. I will try some tape over the battery cover and see if that stops the water getting in.
Maplin W-8681-PRO sending wrong data to Wunderground
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I had a problem with somebody else uploading data to my wunderground account, I have no idea how and wunderground support was rubbish and took months to do anything about.
but the data on wunderground was different from my station, it probably isn't this but the test is to stop uploading your data and see what happens with wunderground, if data is still being displayed it's coming from somewhere else and not you.