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Tuesday 9 July 2013

A fan aspirated weather machine!

Being interested in the weather years ago I bought one of the many "weather stations" available online.  It has a anemometer and rain gauge sensor which feed data into a transmitter which also houses the temperature sensor.
This transmits the data to a display unit which then transfers it to the pic on our website.  Its meant to have a wireless range of 100 metres but its never been that good! The display unit will not sense the transmissions sometimes which accounts for the only thing showing on the site is the barometer which is housed in the display.
With the good weather we have been having the temperature reading have been way high because the transmitter is under Boris the Defenders plastic carport roof.
I look each day at this weather site in Greece amongst other and noticed the weather station was "Fan Aspirated" in an effort to avoid strange temp readings.
This gave me the idea to fit a fan to mine and i bought a solar fan on the net.
The fans about 2 inches in diameter and is temporarily attached and blowing directly into the vent of the temp sensor.  It seems to work as its within 1 or 2 degrees of another sensor i have in the shade
The solar panel sits on the roof, there's a bit of dew on it this morning - - - I wonder if its waterproof - time will tell.

I finally finished of the tree I felled a couple of weeks ago.
Here are the last of the trunk "cheeses" being split yesterday
The one on the skyline will be next.

Enjoy the day  
Follow this link to see  our weather website
Or this one just to see  our live birdfeeder webcam

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