http://www.ambientweather.com/amws1400ip.html#caption
This is essentially what I am wanting, only with faster wind speed updating. But I can get this for $150 or under. Having a hard time justifying spending twice the price right now unless someone has some other insight into why its worth it (I'm sure it is - you almost always get what you pay for with technology).
J
The 1400 has a significant number of problems. You say that wind is important to you. My first WS-1400 anemometer cups wouldn't even spin until the wind exceeded 4.5mph. Then it would stop abruptly when it dropped below 3.5mph. The replacement ISS is a little better but still not up to what I would expect. For reference I own 2 x Davis Vantage Vue Pros, a Vantage Vue, WS-2080, 2 x WS-1400-IP, RainWise tipping bucket, 2 x RG11 Rain Sensors and an assortment of home brewed sensors reporting to home brewed Arduino data loggers. I post my data to WU, CWOP, APRS, MySQL, meteotemplate and a few others.
It's very limited as to which services it can report. It was designed for WU. If that's all you care about it's fine. I will say that for a cheap ISS, the rain gauge is pretty accurate. It's pretty consistently within .02 of my Stratus RG202.
If you look through the forum here you'll see a number of us are not happy with it overall.
With your budget you do have some restraints. If you can swing the extra cash to get the Davis Vantage Vue, it would serve you much better than anything else you've listed. All of the Fine Offset/Ambient Weather stations are much lower in quality and serviceability than the Davis stations. The tipping bucket in the Vantage Vue is adjustable so you can dial it in to be pretty accurate. As for the Vantage Vue console, it's really not that bad. I don't use the consoles of most of my stations for anything other than a method to get the data to a meteobridge for reporting. But, for now the Vantage Vue is the only one near me that I look at on a regular basis even though there are two VP2 consoles nearby.
Just my .02 cents worth.