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Guy-
Could you post info (or send it to me privately) about what a Davis weather
station is, it manufacturer, source, etc? Might have a use for that sort
of thing here...
Thanks!
>>I am aware of inexpensive ($50-100)
>>electronic measuring devices that give instantaneous readings of temp and
>>RH and are quickly and easily calibrated, we have one and it works
>>beautifully. However, we need to have an accessible record, hard copy or
>>electronic, and the electronic instruments I'm familiar with don't have
>>that capability.
>
>In a similar situation, we have been using a Davis weather station ($400)
>which collects outside weather data and downloads it to a Mac or PC. This
>gets rainfall, windspeed, barometric pressure, as well as temp. and rh.
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>The connection is a serial connection to a computer for data storage. They
>also have instructions for using a modem to hook it up. We recently
>connected it to our network using a "NetSerial" so now we can access the
>weather data from any computer on the network.
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>This weather station has worked so well, that I have also just begun to look
>at other ways we can hook up measuring devices and get rid of those creaky
>old mechanical things.
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>One product called CNX is a networkable data acquistion and control "black
>box" with multiple inputs and outputs which you can attach to electronic
>devices to capture data. This would let us monitor specific functions.
>They say to use Radio Shack monitoring devices. I have to follow this up.
>
>Let me know what you find out.
>
>Guy Hermann | Mystic Seaport Museum
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Claremont, CA 91711
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