Topic: Ws80 possible to purchase in US?

[fkapp]

On ecowitt site says not available for US.
Is it possible to buy if in US direct from ecowitt?
Why is this not possible if cant?

[Jeje2]

in US it's sold by Ambient Weather. The product is WS-5000-ARRAY by this thread in here.

If I looked right at their shop it's this one: https://ambientweather.com/amwewsreulan.html

[fkapp]

Thanks. Looks like the heated one is not available here so presents issue as am in ne us.

Maybe they will make this available in future

Thanks
Frank

[Jeje2]

Thanks. Looks like the heated one is not available here so presents issue as am in ne us.

Maybe they will make this available in future

Well, as I live in Finland where winter & snow is a common state, I now finally, after long consideration and drooling after WS80, decided that as Ecowitt solution with WS80 (pacake: HP2553 340USD + heater EC0002 51USD) is 100 USD more expensive than a solution with WS68 (package: HP3501 290 USD) - I'm going with the traditional wins wane and -cups solution.  (Also I would have trouble in getting the heater cable from electrical output to WS 80)

Now just waiting for Ecowitt to get all my products (868Mhz) in stock before I place my order...

[Gyvate]

Thanks. Looks like the heated one is not available here so presents issue as am in ne us.

Maybe they will make this available in future

Thanks
Frank

A WS80 wouldn't be received and processed by an Ambient console (but by a GW1000/GW1100 it would).
A GW1100/GW1000 would receive and process the WS80 and an Ambient WS-5000 ULTRASONIC array.

Ambient have a contract with Fine Offset that binds Fine Offset and its retail arm Ecowitt to exclusively sell the WS80 with Ambient adapted firmware to Ambient as their WS-5000 ULTRASONIC.
Or, in other words, Ambient are ("is" for Americans  ) the exclusive vendor for the WS80 product in the U.S.

If you want to get a WS80 with Ecowitt firmware and the inbuilt heater (plus the respective power supply with the 10 or 20 m cable) into the U.S., you need to get it delivered to a country outside the U.S. and pick it up (or get it forwarded from) there (friends, colleagues, family, ...)
e.g. Canada, Mexico.