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- Wed 23 Apr 2014 5:28 pm
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Maplin station range issue
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5694
Re: Maplin station range issue
Alan, As originally planned, the remote is a pain to get to, but that's the way these things work out, I was trying to "persuade" the user to put it somewhere more accessible, based on my own experience of things like spiders in the rain system, changing batteries, and general aggravations...
- Tue 22 Apr 2014 11:07 pm
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Maplin station range issue
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5694
Re: Maplin station range issue
Here's a picture of a vertical dipole radiation pattern. It's shows what Jim means. So add some walls, floors, roof and ceiling and there's probably not much signal left for the receiver to pick up. https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT7qN3HJR3iB_xS_VYzMXrpIc_xf9mJSownIPg_PeNlzwyr...
- Tue 22 Apr 2014 7:10 pm
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Maplin station range issue
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5694
Re: Maplin station range issue
If the transmitter is almost directly above the receiver (which is how it sounds from the description) then each could be in or near a null in the other's aerial response. Try tilting the transmitter and receiver away from their normal positions and see if that makes a difference. Jim, There's an o...
- Tue 22 Apr 2014 7:07 pm
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Maplin station range issue
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5694
Re: Maplin station range issue
Extend the cables and bring the transmitter to just outside the window this is what I did but for a different reason also makes changing the batteries easy.Alan That's beginning to look like an option, I was forgetting that I've got a crimp tool for RJ11's so not the most difficult task in the worl...
- Tue 22 Apr 2014 1:45 pm
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Maplin station range issue
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5694
Re: Maplin station range issue
Yup, Tile roof, then 2 floors, though there's not a lot of blockwork in the line between the sender and receiver, so I'm hoping that it's just the batteries are weak, if it's not, then getting it to perform could be "interesting", based on earlier experience at other locations. I have a su...
- Tue 22 Apr 2014 11:41 am
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Maplin station range issue
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5694
Maplin station range issue
Hi Folks, Put a "standard" Maplin station up for a friend earlier in the week, it's on a pole attached to a chimney that's 2.5 floors up from where the base station is supposed to be going, and that's the problem, if the base station is on the window cill on the ground floor, it's not seei...
- Sat 18 Feb 2012 11:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: I spy with my little eye....
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2690
Re: I spy with my little eye....
A very special weather station that may well be something to do with one of the university colleges or similar in the Bristol area, if I am seeing what's there correctly, there are effectively 2 weather stations there, one of them a traditional wind direction and wind speed sensor, and the other, if...
- Sat 24 Dec 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: Homebuilt
- Topic: Hall effect sensor for wind vane, or ultrasonic sensors
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6512
Re: Hall effect sensor for wind vane, or ultrasonic sensors
Indeed, as Steve (Loft) pointed out, those ultrasonic wind (anemometer/wind direction) sensors are, on average, the price (or above the price) of a good/high quality complete weather station... :shock: Steve (the Irish Steve :) ), during my searches to find additional information about ultrasonic w...
- Fri 23 Dec 2011 11:14 pm
- Forum: Homebuilt
- Topic: Hall effect sensor for wind vane, or ultrasonic sensors
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6512
Re: Hall effect sensor for wind vane, or ultrasonic sensors
The other option that was interesting, but horribly expensive in the commercial form is a device that's using 3 or 4 ultrasonic sensors to measure both wind speed and direction in the one device, and there are no moving parts with it, which has to be attractive. I'd like one of these. No, I don't w...
- Fri 23 Dec 2011 10:05 pm
- Forum: Homebuilt
- Topic: Hall effect sensor for wind vane, or ultrasonic sensors
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6512
Hall effect sensor for wind vane, or ultrasonic sensors
OK, here we go. I have an (Maplin) FO 1080 station that's been on the roof for a couple of years, and it recently stopped recording rain, which is the main reason I need the station, as it's my early warning of the danger of flooding. I've also been casting roung the threads here recently, and come ...
- Sun 30 Oct 2011 5:57 pm
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: WH1080 rain sensor
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2724
Re: WH1080 rain sensor
Several possibilities that might be happening. There may be restrictions on the movement of the tip bucket, the favourite is spider's web, which is preventing correct operation, or due to accumulation of debris or similar, it's not tipping to full travel. Check that it's not sticking on the pivot sh...
- Thu 27 Oct 2011 6:38 pm
- Forum: Homebuilt
- Topic: Weather related sensor
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8603
Re: Weather related sensor
Hi Not a solution I'm afraid just a suggestion which might influence the design. It would be useful to know the rate of change of level and possibly the rate of flow. But a suggestional also - a rheostat with a long arm attached to a float (though there would be a lot of 'bounce' in turbulent water...
- Tue 25 Oct 2011 1:13 pm
- Forum: Homebuilt
- Topic: Weather related sensor
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8603
Weather related sensor
Folks, It's not for a weather station, but very much weather related, and will end up being used alongside a weather station feeding into a logging PC. I need a depth sensor, so that I can closely monitor rising water levels in a stream that runs through the garden, for all sorts of reasons, it caus...
- Fri 10 Dec 2010 12:32 am
- Forum: Fine Offset/EasyWeather
- Topic: Tripped circuit breaker!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2988
Re: Tripped circuit breaker!
Did you sort this out? I've only just joined the forum, and was browsing some of the threads, and came across this one in passing. Reason I ask is that a couple of months ago, I had some wierd problems with a couple of PC's that suddenly started giving strange problems with USB ports, and nothing I ...
- Thu 09 Dec 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: Homebuilt
- Topic: Transmitter on mains power
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4005
Re: Transmitter on mains power
UPS............... Diesel generator.............. Have both, but not for the weather station, the UPS and generator are for computer hardware. Have a Maplin (Fine Offset) 1080. The simplest solution that seems to have worked OK for me over the last 12 months is a regulated DC power supply, and 2 AA ...