Topic: Texas Electronics Dallas

[Texhunt]

Hi,
Does anyone know anything about Texas Electronics in Dallas? I have tried calling them several times recently and only getting a recording.
Thanks,
Jim

[TheBushPilot]

Texas Electronics manufactures heavy duty wind measurement equipment and high quality rain gauges used by USGS and many state mesonet networks. They've been around forever, in a similar class to R. M. Young, Met One Instruments, and Campbell Scientific.


Cheers

[DaleReid]

Their trademark color is an anodized gold, if that is the one you are thinking of.

Many small cable companies, back when they were starting  up, had weather station equipment from Texas Electronics (it is always hard to be sure by just glancing at at name since Texas Electronics was a huge chip and calculator manufacturer, and Texas Weather instruments made tons of high level stations but has been out of business for years.

A friend of mine who was chief engineer for a couple small cable companies got a bunch of the tipping bucket rain gauges and made a few of us very happy.  I've also purchased a few off eBay and can attest to the quality that BushPilot alludes to.

I also got, awhile ago, a wind sensor with a traditional cup anemometer and wind vane.  The Vane needed a new sending  unit and even a decade ago the price was nearly $130, which was beyond my pocketbook, but having disassembled the  unit to figure out what was wrong, can attest to the very well machined parts he put into it.

I've not tried calling in a couple years, but if they still have a web presence, should be around, or look for parts on eBay which lately have been mainly tipping bucket gauges and the occasional electronics board about which I know nothing not having a station from them.

While you aren't getting any answer right now, may be on break, or with the age of the principle guy, medical or retirement in mind.

Would you care to ask the question you had for them here, and maybe some of us can be of help?  Dale

[R.Sidetrack]

Many small cable companies, back when they were starting  up, had weather station equipment from Texas Electronics (it is always hard to be sure by just glancing at at name since Texas Electronics was a huge chip and calculator manufacturer ...

Perhaps you are thinking of Texas Instruments (TI)?
And yes, they are still in business, making chips and even calculators. https://education.ti.com/en

[DaleReid]

Yes, with Texas and Electronics and Instruments and Weather, there were / are a lot of combinatins.

Texas Instruments made a lot of stuff, I am glad to hear they are still doing their thing.

Texas Weather Instruments is defunct.  Too bad since they did make a rock solid bunch of stuff.  Only one I have had go to pot was hit by lightning.  But maybe that was their problem, too good of stuff that didn't need replacement or repair and a relatively small market.  They also made, but not  under their name, a unit and a nice green display with an oak frame that a lot of schools out east used as a science project and reported to a central net.  Can't recall the name, but a nice piece.  I think the guy at the TWI shop told me that the target was 1000 of them but didn't get that number installed before things ramped down.

The https://texaselectronics.com/ place seems to still be offering great stuff.

At my age with so much filled  up and so little room for more, my mind gets a bit off track once in awhile, so pardon my mixing Electronics up with Instruments. 

As an aside, if I recall one of the first high level calculators TI made was programmed in Reverse Polish method, where the order of numeric and operator sequence was a bit different from the traditional, and goofed me up more than once.  Our college chemistry department had one and needed to schedule and check out, it was that expensive at the time, something like $400 back in the early 70s.

Dale

[DaleReid]

Once again my error!  The calculator with Reverse Polish Notation was the Hewlett Packard.  A fine instrument, too.  I retract my comment about Texas Electronics unless they, too, made one.