[wxqc] starting again

[Gary B]

You can get/make much longer cables for the Davis instruments. An associate 
of mine has a cable 125 feet long between his model 6152 anemometer and his 
rainbucket/thermometer assembly.
Regards
Gary Balcom (CW8232)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Engel" <brillig at gmail.com>
To: <zalmor64 at gmail.com>; "Discussion of weather data quality issues" 
<wxqc at lists.gladstonefamily.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: [wxqc] starting again


>I guess that could work, but it wouldn't in my case. Those cables are
> 40 feet long, right? My anemometer is at 40' and the ISS at 6' or 7'.
> That's a difference of 33', but the anemometer is mounted on a pole on
> the peak of my roof, and the ISS is in the middle of the backyard
> (about 30 feet horizontally, I think), so the cable wouldn't be long
> enough. But I suppose I could put the sensors in a third location. It
> just seems so obvious, though, that they should go just above the
> anemometer.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Michael Andrews <zalmor64 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>>      The Solar/UV/Wind gauges on a VP2 wireless (not sure about the
>> non-wireless version) can be lengthened with the Davis extension cables.
>> I've done this here mounting my Solar/UV/Wind gauges on top of a 30' 
>> pole,
>> and while the ISS is about 8' from the ground.  All working from the ISS
>> unit w/o using an extra channel.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Victor Engel wrote:
>>  On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Michael Roffall <mroffall at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Regarding someones suggestion that you mount the solar radiation and UV
>> sensors on top of the pole - well, I don't know how you could do that
>> without placing the entire sensor suite up there. It's not feasable to
>> separate them from the sensor suite by that distance.
>>
>>  I had a question about this some time before, but I haven't done any
>> experimentation, so I don't know the answer. If using a wireless
>> system, the transmitter that the anemometer uses has extra plugs for
>> other equipment. It seems to me the radiation and UV sensors could be
>> plugged in there. I'd love it if this worked, but as I said, I haven't
>> tried it. If anyone has tried it or knows for sure whether or not it
>> would work, let me know.
>>
>> Victor
>> CW6155
>>
>>
>>
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