Weather Station Hardware > Remote Weather Monitoring
Best Affordable Remote Weather Station?
hydrogis:
I'm new to weather monitoring and would love some advice from this knowledgeable community!
I am interested in purchasing nine weather stations to conduct student research in Georgia, USA. We need to measure temperature, wind speed, humidity, UV index, barometric pressure, and rainfall.
These nine stations will be located in remote locations (near farm ponds, forested ponds, and municipal reservoirs) so they must run on battery power. The stations also need to store data (we will only able to download data monthly).
Many of you seem to use Davis products for remote monitoring. However, we have a limited budget and would like to spend around $250 per weatherstation (could spend up to $430, if absolutely necessary).
We are considering the Oregon Scientific WMR 200 (http://www.oregonscientificstore.com/Oregon-Scientific-WMR200-Professional-Weather--Station-Center.data). Any other products recommended?
Any guidance is greatly appreciated!!!
Farmtalk:
I have a Weatherwise 1090 weather station, it works great and is easy to install and they are on sale right now for around $125. They measure everything u specified except for UV Index but it has solar radiation and evapotranspiration to replace that. Im not affiliated with Weatherwise but I would say it's a great product.
d_l:
What failure rate for the nine stations will you be able to accept? IOW, how many stations can fail and not seriously impact your research results?
All weather stations have some failure rate fail out of the box and over time. When you have that many stations operating at once, your odds are greatly increased that you will have to deal with the manufacturer for warranty service or off warranty repairs. If the manufacturer doesn't stand behind their product, then you should budget for replacement of one to three or more new stations to replace the ones you had to junk.
DanS:
Hi and welcome to the forum! Your OS station choice might be the best for your requirements and budget allowance. I see a logger time table on page 9 of the manual. It appears to have plenty of memory for what you intend to use it for. Sounds like a fun project.
I saw some on the Ambient site like the Meade that meet your requirements. The UV sensor with this particular model is included where many others it is an option.
Weather Display:
yes the WMR200 has internal storage, which depends on the history interval, how long that is (you can get like a month storage eg at every 30 minutes, from memory)
the UV sensor though with that station should only be looked at providing a rough guide only
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