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Designing and building my own weather station, notes and discussion
SLOweather:
Well, the copper weather vane has morphed now into as much of a "steam-punk" weather station as I can muster. As you probably have read elsewhere, I have the weather vane and anemometer built, and the anny actually measuring wind speed. I'm still cogitating on the mechanics of how to read the weather vane position. I've chosen a rather obscure industrial automation controller, because I have lots of parts, it makes me a better programmer for our water company, and because I think it will add to the ultimate steam-punkishness of the final project.
The choice of the controller limits my inputs to discrete switches, and 4-20 ma, and 0-5 volt analog signals. I can also have relay and analog outputs as well as a speech board.
For temperature, I've selected LM34s, which produce a voltage output proportional to the temperature in F. It's actually very easy to read, as the voltage in 10s of mv = the temperature in degrees F. (0.75 volts = 75°).
2 of those, a wick and some distilled water, and a small fan make a psychrometer. I can use those temperature values and the barometric pressure to calculate the relative humidity and dew point.
Now I'm on the track of some analog barometric pressure sensors. :)
Farmtalk:
That is awesome! Care to post some pictures of your fine work? :-)
CW2274:
--- Quote from: SLOweather on March 07, 2016, 04:46:52 PM ---Now I'm on the track of some analog barometric pressure sensors. :)
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There's a ton of aircraft altimeters on sale thru ebay.
SLOweather:
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Those all seem to be mechanical. I thought about trying to make one analog. I'm looking for something with a 0-5 volt output at say, 800-1100 hPa/mb.
Climatronics has one that would work, but it's $600.
http://www.climatronics.com/pdf_pn/sensors/102270.pdf
First Sensor has one, for $54 in unit quantities, shipped from Germany:
SLOweather:
--- Quote from: Farmtalk on March 07, 2016, 04:55:04 PM ---That is awesome! Care to post some pictures of your fine work? :-)
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There's a thread on the mechanics of the weather vane and "add-a-mometer" here:
http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=27818.0
and more on the anemometer sensing and calibration here:
http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=28573.0
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