Weather Station

[TrevorW]

Please advice sort, need one that gives alarms for wind and rain mainly, wifi, do not want to spend more than $500:thanx:

[Joshua Bunn]

Hi Trevor.
Check out the AAG cloudwatcher.
Will the weather station have control of the roof?


Josh

[TrevorW]

Is it wifi and looking at base model with wind detector over $500

[Joshua Bunn]

Not WIFI, sorry Trevor

[Paul Haese]

Hi Trevor,

for our obs weather control we use AAG which produces the right data for automation programmes. This gives wind speed, rain sensing, IR reading of sky (cloud readings), humidity and ambient temperature. Generally the cheapest reliable weather control on the market. There are other cheaper ones but I don't know of anyone using these. The AAG with anemometer cost $700 and we also got a solo to go with it which cost another $400 or so dollars. It's not a cheap exercise but I don't want our gear or clients gear getting damaged, so the expense is a necessity.

We also have a Holman weather station which uploads to a phone programme and that gives use more data on weather, rain fall, dew point, humidity, barometric pressure etc. That cost $400 but it cannot do anything for an observatory control system.

[Joshua Bunn]

+1 what Paul said.


Will you be running an observatory computer and logging in from some meters away in your house for example?

[TrevorW]

Thanks guys at this stage the option was to go with an Ecowit system as was within my budget, regards :)