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Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Discussion specific to Fine Offset and similar rebadged weather stations
taddeus
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Weather Station: PCE FWS20 (Fine Offset WH 1080)
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

Good :)
sdsi
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by sdsi »

thanks. good idea.

sombedy who has got WH1081 (model without ferrite rod aerial) can write about values from humdity sensor...?
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hans
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by hans »

i have done the mod with the ferriet antenna.(did have a good reception though)
at first i only wanted to drill some extra holes in the outside housing.(also on the top for better airflow).
for my RH didn,t got above 89%
i didn't wanted to drill in the pcb,which is very likely so i decided to open the unit.
this was also an opportunity to do the antenna mod.
mine was shuffed underneith the pcb in a weird angle,which could have influenced the humidity sensor,or even caused a shortcut,which is very possible when its damp.
now it gets to 98%,and cumulus is set to read 98 as 100%.
very simple double mod,only takes about 15 minutes and gave big improvement.
i do have to mention that over the original stevenson screen i placed a homebuild one with a ventilator in it.
that also made an improvement.
sdsi
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by sdsi »

I've just made the mod with the antena. Now I'm testing... :)
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beteljuice
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by beteljuice »

Thanks for the feed-back Hans :)
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sdsi
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

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after I've made this mod - I can NOT see any differences with humidity values... :(
taddeus
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Weather Station: PCE FWS20 (Fine Offset WH 1080)
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

Mod on antenna done, now I'll see what happens ;)

Ciao.

Stefano
taddeus
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

At the moment the observations seem to be reliable, but the problem occurred predominantly with high values of humidity, currently low.

Regards.

Stefano
taddeus
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

No way for high values of humidity :evil: ; next step: additional potentiometer.
Bye.

Stefano
taddeus
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

My solution, on testing.

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MarkB
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by MarkB »

Is that a linear or a logarithmic potentiometer?
What is the approximate position of the wiper?

Mark
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taddeus
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

Is a linear potentiometer, (with a 5.8 MOhm resistor the correction was too strong, so I've tried a greater resistance across the sensor pins).
With the ohmmeter, the resistance of the potentiomenter is about 8MOhm, so,the total resistance is about 14MOhm.
Now I'm testing.

Have a nice sunday.

Stefano
sdsi
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by sdsi »

Can you take a photo and publish here? Thanks :)
taddeus
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by taddeus »

At the moment I haven't photos.
Care...my solder is too warm for that printed circuit, resulting in little damages (printed circuit damaged where the sensor is soldered). In the first stage I've soldered two thin wires over the printed circuit , the resistor with the potentiometer (flying) and the two wires from the pcb to the potentiometer and the resistor.

Enjoy :D
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MarkB
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Re: Outside Relative Humidity on WH1080

Post by MarkB »

thin solder :!:
the thinner the better!
:D
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