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Offline jgentry

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Re: The Reliability of the SHT-31 Humidity Sensor & What Psychrometer Should I Buy?
« Reply #1275 on: September 28, 2018, 05:15:19 PM »
Heads up for anyone wanting to change over to SHT75 and not great at soldering.
Digikey is about out of the Senserion cables 10' long with the 4 prong sht75 pin adapter.  These need the RJ plug changed or splice in existing Davis RJ connector.
 
Jerry just did a couple up for another forum member and reported the 2-outside wires need swapped on RJ to work.

Reason I'm posting these cables are no longer being made and soon the SHT75 is also out of production.
Only place I've found the cables is Digikey with 6 left today. 3 weeks ago 70+ in stock so someone or ones, snagging them up. 

https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/sensirion-ag/3M-CABLES-FOR-EK-H4/1649-1055-ND/5982944

Oh wow!
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For those with the 75: Does the 75 goes back to calibration after prolong periods of RH being over 80% or does the sensor began to have a permanent wet bias?
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I had a very wet period where the humidity was over 80 for several days and my sensor was showing about 2 higher, so i replaced it and after a day i put it back out this pm and it is tracking with the others, the 2 seems to be gone. All of the sensors have that caution warning about this quirk. At least it looks like it will clear up.

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I had a very wet period where the humidity was over 80 for several days and my sensor was showing about 2 higher, so i replaced it and after a day i put it back out this pm and it is tracking with the others, the 2 seems to be gone. All of the sensors have that caution warning about this quirk. At least it looks like it will clear up.

Good deal
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I had a very wet period where the humidity was over 80 for several days and my sensor was showing about 2 higher, so i replaced it and after a day i put it back out this pm and it is tracking with the others, the 2 seems to be gone. All of the sensors have that caution warning about this quirk. At least it looks like it will clear up.

Are you still using the 75 for your website?
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Got the 75 installed in one of my field stations yesterday evening. Recorded a peak RH of 98% this morning which matches up with most Davis stations that has the 31 inside of a FARS. I’ve noticed the DP being the same to 1° lower at times compared to the stations with the 31 sensors. Other times, it’s been 2-3° lower than the 31s. The surrounding airports still around 1-3° cooler with most of the time only being 1-2° cooler. Only one time today that the DP on the 75 was cooler than the surrounding airports (1-3°).

You can view the surrounding NWS/RAWS stations here:

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/trend_zip_mm.cgi?zipcode=35171&radius=55&noho=1&rawsflag=1&orderby=p&hour1=21&day1=04&month1=10&year1=2018&type=0&mode=

You can view my field station with the 75 here:

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=E6358&unit=0&time=&hours=24&hour1=21&day1=04&month1=10&year1=2018&radius=25&past=0&order=1

Here is a nearby station that has the 31 inside of a FARS

https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=F0139&unit=0&time=&hours=24&hour1=21&day1=04&month1=10&year1=2018&radius=25&past=0&order=1
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I noticed today that the nearby VP2 station that has the 31 inside of FARS recorded the same peak DP of 75°. The lowest DP was recorded early this morning and was only 1° difference.
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Do you guys think it's possible that Davis has addressed and corrected the problem and haven't said anything (I truly don't think they'll ever admit a problem exists), or happenstance that 31's seem playing well more so with others?

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Do you guys think it's possible that Davis has addressed and corrected the problem and haven't said anything (I truly don't think they'll ever admit a problem exists), or happenstance that 31's seem playing well more so with others?

Don’t know...All I know is that the nearby station with the 31 is three years old. Sensor hasn’t been replaced.
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Do you guys think it's possible that Davis has addressed and corrected the problem and haven't said anything (I truly don't think they'll ever admit a problem exists), or happenstance that 31's seem playing well more so with others?
Don’t know...All I know is that the nearby station with the 31 is three years old. Sensor hasn’t been replaced.
Not positive, but I think the 31 wasn't even available then. I installed my first one late 3/16 and I believe that was pretty much hot off the press.

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Do you guys think it's possible that Davis has addressed and corrected the problem and haven't said anything (I truly don't think they'll ever admit a problem exists), or happenstance that 31's seem playing well more so with others?
Don’t know...All I know is that the nearby station with the 31 is three years old. Sensor hasn’t been replaced.
Not positive, but I think the 31 wasn't even available then. I installed my first one late 3/16 and I believe that was pretty much hot off the press.

I’m mistaken then. It’s been 2 years and not three.
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Do you guys think it's possible that Davis has addressed and corrected the problem and haven't said anything (I truly don't think they'll ever admit a problem exists), or happenstance that 31's seem playing well more so with others?
Don’t know...All I know is that the nearby station with the 31 is three years old. Sensor hasn’t been replaced.
Not positive, but I think the 31 wasn't even available then. I installed my first one late 3/16 and I believe that was pretty much hot off the press.

I believe I read on here somewhere that they started being shipped on some VP2's in December 2015. I could be wrong though.
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Do you guys think it's possible that Davis has addressed and corrected the problem and haven't said anything (I truly don't think they'll ever admit a problem exists), or happenstance that 31's seem playing well more so with others?
Don’t know...All I know is that the nearby station with the 31 is three years old. Sensor hasn’t been replaced.
Not positive, but I think the 31 wasn't even available then. I installed my first one late 3/16 and I believe that was pretty much hot off the press.

I believe I read on here somewhere that they started being shipped on some VP2's in December 2015. I could be wrong though.
No sir. 31's weren't factory installed until last year. That doesn't mean they weren't available at that point for the retro fit on older ISS's like mine.

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I got a new ISS and 31 from Ryan a few weeks ago and I've been liking it so far. I had been using an old late 2006 ISS that came with an analog T/H when I bought it. After switching to digital sensors I had noticed I'd get strange spikes in RH a couple of times a day...i.e. I'd have an hour of something like 83-86% RH but I'd get 1 ob in there with 95% that would really stand out. That's gone now with the new transmitter.

The past few days I've been hitting 99% RH at night and the dewpoint has seemed on par during the day. I'm running it with the filter off and the fan at 9V.

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I got a new ISS and 31 from Ryan a few weeks ago and I've been liking it so far. I had been using an old late 2006 ISS that came with an analog T/H when I bought it. After switching to digital sensors I had noticed I'd get strange spikes in RH a couple of times a day...i.e. I'd have an hour of something like 83-86% RH but I'd get 1 ob in there with 95% that would really stand out. That's gone now with the new transmitter.

The past few days I've been hitting 99% RH at night and the dewpoint has seemed on par during the day. I'm running it with the filter off and the fan at 9V.
9VDC? Obviously, that's not a stock Davis FARS fan; what brand is it?
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I got a new ISS and 31 from Ryan a few weeks ago and I've been liking it so far. I had been using an old late 2006 ISS that came with an analog T/H when I bought it. After switching to digital sensors I had noticed I'd get strange spikes in RH a couple of times a day...i.e. I'd have an hour of something like 83-86% RH but I'd get 1 ob in there with 95% that would really stand out. That's gone now with the new transmitter.

The past few days I've been hitting 99% RH at night and the dewpoint has seemed on par during the day. I'm running it with the filter off and the fan at 9V.
9VDC? Obviously, that's not a stock Davis FARS fan; what brand is it?
I'll have to find a link later. It's one of those 12V circular Xerox drum fans. I connect it to a variable AC adapter and run it at 9V because  it doesn't like to startup at 12V even though it's rated for it. I got tired of forgetting it's off when the power comes back on after an outage. At 9V, no issues.

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So far with the 75, I like it pretty good. During the day, the DP is either the same or a few degrees lower than the nearby 31s. Sometimes the DP is the same or +/-1° than the nearby airports. Other times, it’s around a 2-3° difference with the 75 being wetter. For rest of y’all that have the 75, have y’all noticed the same thing? I will say that some weeds and other vegetation growing some underneath the station but nowhere high enough to be close the shield/sensor.
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This maybe should be in a new thread, but I recently found the preliminary data sheet on the new SHT85 ...

https://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/Sensirion_10022018_HT_DS_SHT85_V0.9_D1.pdf

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This maybe should be in a new thread, but I recently found the preliminary data sheet on the new SHT85 ...

https://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/Sensirion_10022018_HT_DS_SHT85_V0.9_D1.pdf
\:D/ However.... The Big But....Is the protocol compatible with our ISS's???

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This maybe should be in a new thread, but I recently found the preliminary data sheet on the new SHT85 ...

https://www.mouser.com/catalog/specsheets/Sensirion_10022018_HT_DS_SHT85_V0.9_D1.pdf
\:D/ However.... The Big But....Is the protocol compatible with our ISS's???

I searched the whole document. I only see references to I2C protocol. So doesn't look good. No mention of LSS. I suppose there could always be a separate document for the LSS version.

I liked that the SHT85 has a built-in heater! That is new I think.
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If you look at the data sheet on SHT75 its says IC not IC2 so this is same problem other newer sensors have so probably won't work. I'm no expert however on what will work with Davis.
From what I have pieced together the Davis version of SHT31 was special production order because they don't advertise the Davis version at all on Sensirion website.
Davis uses a protocol that is backward compatible and proprietary.
The 75 looks like the only way to avoid the wet bias.
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I liked that the SHT85 has a built-in heater! That is new I think.

The SHT1x and SHT3x series have all had heaters.

Most unlikely IMHO that they will offer this assembly (selected SHT3x on a stick?) in the older interface :-(

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Here is my take on this:

The SHT85 is pin for pin compatible with the SHT75 (electrically) and could be simply plugged in without any rewiring .  Although the SHT85 appears to be I2C only, a simple firmware upgrade for the ISS would be required.  As far as I know, this could only be done by Davis.

See:

https://www.mouser.com/catalog/additional/Sensirion_HT_AN_SHT85_Transitioning_SHT7x_to_SHT85_V0.9_D1.pdf



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Here is my take on this:

The SHT85 is pin for pin compatible with the SHT75 (electrically) and could be simply plugged in without any rewiring .  Although the SHT85 appears to be I2C only, a simple firmware upgrade for the ISS would be required.  As far as I know, this could only be done by Davis.

See:

https://www.mouser.com/catalog/additional/Sensirion_HT_AN_SHT85_Transitioning_SHT7x_to_SHT85_V0.9_D1.pdf

Would be nice, either Davis or others figure out how. Specs on the X85 look really good.
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