B&G WS320 Wireless Wind Sensor
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2022
- At $650 the B&G WS320 Wireless Wind Sensor is not exactly a bargain, and frankly, I wish it was much more robust in its design.
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I have been following you for a long time. I do actually work in R&D at Navico (we make the B&G products). I agree with your issues. I had similar issues with the WS320 on my boat because of similar reasons and I think you have a good solution which we maybe should recommend for those situations. But I can say that we have tried the WS320 on real life boats quite a lot :) We always do before we release anything. But we do not always manage to test the same conditions as all of our sailors have unfortunately. And I do occasionally play video games but I have also lived on boats for a big part of my life, does those things counteract each other? I have forwarded your video to some of my colleagues. We appreciate the input!
LOL! I hope they take it as well as you did. : )
I love that you work there and that you watch this video and I love it even more that you live on boats and you understand completely and that you like his fix working together always makes a dream work no matter what teamwork and DreamWork
Bla, bla....bla.....Just apologize and recall the product and sent a new good one.....
Please put a 360 degree camera on top of the mast Doug. There are thousands of them dotted around most big cities doing eff all. You could probably pinch one of those.
Will you sponsor it for him?
Shoot I'll go get one for ya!!
Try a little Solar panel from a yard light to keep it charged👍
I am amazed at how healthy and young you look now. I started watching this channel at the lead pour for the keel and have been through every video from the beginning. I stopped watching when you got stuck at the port without insurance. I picked back up this week while on vacation and have binged watched every video since you got your insurance. Because of the binge viewing in such a short time, it became noticeable to me that you now look 10 years younger and more vibrant than in any of your past videos. At first I thought all the exercise you were getting was showing but then I recognized that from the beginning this entire endeavor has been physically demanding, so you should have shown it earlier. No, the transformation seemed to rapidly take place shortly after you exited the industrial canal. In reality what I think we are witnessing in real time is a mental, emotional and above all spiritual transformation of someone who has found what they were meant to do in life. Congratulations on achieving your life happy. You are an inspiration to so many others who need to take that first step to achieving theirs.
Damn that snatch block sounded like old dial up internet 😂
I think it sounded awesome.👍
merry christmas to you and your crew. many thanks for the entertainment over the last year.
The never ending saga.🙂🙂
I'm currently in school for mechanical engineering so i can design sailboats, definitely noticed a difference between the product engineers and the mechanical engineers already. And it's kinda funny how many of my teachers have told me " you are not X engineer so you will never use this again" I'm glad they are honest with it.
Really enjoying seeing Seeker come together, Doug. I definitely agree about experience and engineering, I worked the trades for many years and was fond of saying "No Scribbler should be allowed to pick up a pencil until he puts down his tools!" I could tell you some tales about the enginerding I've run into over the years! LOL
As an engineer myself, I 100% agree with you
Yes, some of the jobs I went on with my dad ... He found some crazy things... Lol
I'm getting ready to climb a mast ... on a 10 acre greenhouse. The anemometer on the weather station has some shot bearings. Having accurate wind readings is important for the greenhouse because it helps calculate anticipatory cooling rates and also if the wind goes above 25 MPH, it triggers the vents to close.
I remember I didn't say "Hey, put the tractor seat on top of the mast", it was yourself and a darn good idea for a yourself idea. I'd never be able to sit up there, anything over 8 ft and I'm toast, fall all the way to whatever I hit and go "Smooshies"... Happy Holidays Ya'll!!
Naa, I can haul you up there. The view is great.
Best piece of advice for those people still raising children today...(3:01) Gotta love it!!
Another great video doug
And my rope work got in at the end cheers
Enjoying the mast-head views of the gulf coast thanks!
A small pocket solar panel wired to the battery also would do the trick keeping it charged. 🎅👍👍
Looks like it has one built in.
Might be worth considering a larger panel and batter pack to power multiple instruments and as a backup, installed at the mast top to minimize wire run.
One of the wonderful things about solar/ rechargeable and wireless, you can't create individual smaller banks in multiple locations and can avoid running long wires.
Certainly make stepping the mast a bit easier with no wires to connect/disconnect.
A buddy and I had to climb the mast and walk out to the end of the yardarm on a navy minesweeper, while underway, to remove the wind speed direction indicator when the casting broke.
Salt air is hard on certain metals!
Only blue water under us!
Sure had a good view!
have always enjoyed your channel Doug, think I saw that your wind instrument display is the triton 3 like mine, wanted to mention BandG put out an update that will put the A for apparent direction on your rose, just like the T
go online with your system, and it will offer to update for you
Rock Exotica makes great blocks we use ours for cell tower maintenance and builds
Doug, you could also try 'TriFlow Lubricant' on that lazyjack block to get the squeak out, most bicycle shops would have it.
You look happy, Doug! :)
I use those shrink connections too, but mostly only when I need a quick fix or I can't get a soldering tool in there safely. Or when the length of the wires us to short to put on a conventional shrink. They work great. But first timers should get some extra because they work best if you heat them up just long enough, too cold and your connection isn't great, too long and you ruin the insulation, and they don't like reheating. But they are a must have in a tool box. You never know when you need them. That and a lighter and you're set.
So as an FYI you should tie up a fishing line harness on the Sender. they have a history of falling off. If you make a harness at least you will not loose it. If you get to St. Petersburg look me up I would love to help if needed.
Haha 😂 I actually know the guy that designed that wind sensor mount. I use to tell them that CAD is not King 👑😂😂
Did you pull off the price tab sticker on the bottom of the mounting plate? You might need a better ground after the bolts you drilled through the mast hat builds up dissembled metal resistance.
Doug I d like to suggest a double boulin over an eight not, it holds quite as well without locking under tension
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I finally figured out Neil's accent he's a Bluenose I have friends here in BC Canada from NS. Anything to do with marine costs a lot of money, a guy can't cheap out on navigation and weather monitoring equipment.
Drill a hole at the top and bottom of the mast and pull a wire to mount the battery at the bottom of the mast. no climbing needed.
I wonder if you could fab solar for that weather station, so you did not need to change batteries.
Doug do you have to do this every time the battery wears down? Guessing solar with a battery big enough to cover for cloudy days. I assume it goes to sleep when it's not in use?
I know it's just a cheap wind meter but could you run a small rope up the inside of the mast and go out the top and over down into a self aligning mount it gets pulled into I know I'm lazy too.
Doug, have you considered running a pair of wires down to the bottom of the mast so that battery changes could be easier? Just a thought and it may not be feasible.
Doug might be better off mounting a small solar panel up there alongside the unit and connecting it up to the battery so that its always changing. If he did that, I'd swap the battery for a LiPo cell with built-in overcharge protection.
First lightning strike nearby and that gadget is out. Lots of induction in such a long wire run.
@@medhurstt Wrong voltage, can't do that.
@@FrozenHaxor And in terms of NiMh to LiPo, do you know what voltage the NiMh pack was putting out? I highly doubt its 1.2V so it'd be a number of them in series.
@@medhurstt 2.4V pack. cant use lithium as its 4.2V full charge
Check out the Flora-Bama. I think you would like it 😊
It's not a tractor seat anymore. It's the bosun's throne!
Wireless sounds like a great idea but the problems it adds might not be worth it.
I love the channel and have been following for years, but I do need to say that if you want something engineered for either your specific use case or a universal use case, then you need to pay for it.
I have a wireless spotlight on my boat. The '"ireless" part is only the control commands to the light meaning there is no wiring directly connecting the two. I provide 12 volts at the light and 12-volts at the control panel for it. I also have a walk-around battery powered remote controller for the light. So, for your anemometer let me suggest you might do like I did for my spotlight - tap off the voltage supplying something else (like your masthead lights) with an appropriate voltage reducer wired to the battery terminals in the anemometer so you never have to climb the mast to replace the batteries cuz that's just nutz, brother.
Yup. If it turns out to be a problem, that is what I'll do.
@@SVSeeker Speaking of COLD, we got 20s staring us in the face here in Panama City this weekend. May freeze your anemometer batteries, :( I have been back and forth to the boat several times assuring myself I have all the heater tapes and other anti-freezing devices in place.
up the battery voltage to 3.8 at the bottom. might pair easier.
Have you booked any researchers yet? I think that was the plan.
1) Rig the sails. 2) Learn to sail 3) Work her in open water 4) Researchers
@@SVSeeker the plan... Take us on a journey of discovery.
Doesn't appear that you'll have to put up with that sensor battery for very much longer. Once it wriggles out of the four or five wraps of e-tape you've got goin' on, nothing will stop it from flying into the ocean where it belongs
Can you put a solar charger on the anemometer?
First! Doug, when are you coming up the east coast?
Dpug, do you have any wind power to supplement the solar?
No. ...I have seen a lot of broken wind generators on boats and they are noisy too so I'm keeping them low on the list.
Why do I picture Doug rigging up a line to control the hydraulics so he can lift himself? Then he will think about using the crane winch so he can use the remote.
Lord knows I might give it a shot.
you have power to the lights on the mast! Why not connect the wind sensor to permanent power! There is adapters that can reduce power from 12V to 9 or what ever power the Wind sensor uses!
I can, but we'll see how it does first.
what about a dc-dc converter and tap some permanent power feed?
Can't they make a wind powered anemometer?
The WS320 has a solar panel on it.
Don't blame the engineer when the device was never marine rated to begin with.
Ahhhh, it's sold to go on boats.
I love your line re: children and play…. I agree with you the virtual world (vr, video games, etc) is a poor substitute for real world experience.
Speaking of design, I never could figure how a anemometer, essentially a wind turbine, could run out of power. Why should it ever need a battery? Just wondering, though, how many trips up and down the mast for batteries and sync before it would be worthwhile putting in wires for power and signal?
I think the problem is pulling power off it like a generator would screw with the wind speed measurement. I suspect that it is only a rotor with a hall effect senor in it. And 3. : )
They should put two rotors on it. One for the sensor and one for power.
Send you a usb power up the mast and plug it in.
They really wasted an opportunity, anemometer could easily be a great generator to supply endless power to that gadget.
Hey those cold solder connectors are junk. They don't hold up. Just FYI don't use them or you will be chasing broken connections!
Isn't the bad design more that the wind rotor doesn't charge the batteries
I think that would be really difficult to do without affecting the wind speed measurement.
Another rotor then
Do not get a water maker get a dehumidifier to make your water do you identifier does not take the nutrients out of the water a water maker does do you makes about 60 gallons a day
First!
I wonder what you were drinking before you went up the mast. You can be So Funny…! Or meds or both? Actually they should pay you for quality and design assessments…!
I fly rc planes fpv and all the camera / transmitter connections are different? Why. Would it be possible to power that low current up the mast? Seems a 12 volt supply with a buck transformer would get you there. Hail hail. K
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Concrete boats are not strong, they are like eggs, and the fishing boats that raft up at a wharf, do not go on the outside of a concrete boat, because the boat will crush. I saw one in a boat yard, that had grounded on rocks, most of one side was gone. Considering that only one third of the cost of a boat is the hull, concrete was a stupid idea, because they have no resale value.
Anything can be done badly but I've seen one laying on a reef, and it had been there over a decade. Find one and have it run into a plastic boat if you need proof.
@@SVSeeker Tie one up at a wharf on the inside of other boats, and raise it from the bottom the next day. See the resale price, Catalpa, a 46 foot cruising cow trough was bought for $15,000 Australian dollars, that tells you something about them.