[wxqc] Davis 6162C

[Scott Scheibe]

    I want to sincerely thank the person who suggested ProVantage.  I just 
bought a Davis 6162C, daytime aspirated fan kit and a weather link for $126 
+ tax lower than the "low price quote" from Ambient and would have had to 
pay tax on an order from Ambient since they are local to me.  That is about 
another $73 dollars saved.

         The person who was defending Oregon Scientific WMR, I've had mine 
for 5 years and in that time I've had the rain gauge (part of the plastic 
degraded and a 1 inch SQ opening over the circuit board so when it rained 
it would quit working..), 2 solar sensors and multiple batteries go bad. I 
could not tell you how many times I've had to climb up the ladder to reset 
the sensors, but probably on the order of at least once a month in the 
summer (6 months long in Phoenix..) for the last 5 years.  If you look up 
the weather station photos for my system you will see the ladder in one of 
the photos.  You may not have had problems but those of us in more extreme 
climates like Phoenix do, and you probably will.  I probably have spend as 
much on the initial prices of the WMR and keeping it working for 5 years as 
it would have cost me to buy the Davis then.  Right now the anemometer
sensor is down again which it does a lot when it storms and it is monsoon 
season so a storm about a daily occurrence.

>After I bought it, I found out that it was no problem if I wanted to spend
>an additional $195 to replace an data logging device to put the data into a
>APRS format. I feel that I was cheated, there was no information in the
>literature at the time of my purchase. No credit for the old device. (this
>becomes an additional expendure of over $220

(sorry I get the digest so I don't have your names readily handy)  The guy 
in Florida if you are talking about the  Weather Link for APRS 6540, 
ProVantage has it on their email price quote for $126.95.  They had the 
6510SER for $14.94 which is $33 less than Ambient did, and were $134 less 
on the 6162C station, $4 less on the fan aspirated shield kit.



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