I was looking through stuff for a connector and found a Campbell Scientific SR50 that I forgot I had bought on eBay and never got around to testing or trying to interface it.
I know there are a few guys trying to use the Arduino and other setups to measure snow with ultrasonic pulses.
This thing seems to be what some Universities and the Forest Service uses to do recording, so I guess it must be more than a toy. Brand new they are costly, but I'm in hopes to bench test this to see if it works.
If it does respond, has anyone got one to work reliably, and are there hints as to what to do with it? I have read the couple threads about how other ingenious users here have got things to work with their own inventions, but it sounds a lot more challenging than just bolting a bracket on and running wires to a station (obviously, since this thing just outputs values, and those would have to be massaged by some sort of processor such as an Arduino or something to give a value, which then could be fed to something like Weather Display to track and display, like a secondary rain sensor or such.
I appreciate any chatter on the subject. Dale