Nice follow up for the wind chime project. I had one of those weather stations and the UV destroyed it after about a year. Also watch out for the poor hall effect sensor in this....I was getting some horrible bouncing and it would register some crazy amounts of rain and wind. Hopefully your sparkfun device has debouncing code built into it.
I don't know much about this stuff, but I believe those batteries shouldn't be used with those controllers due lacking temperature control, seems particularly relevant for a weather station that will be exposed to the elements. just in case you want to double check that.
I'm not sure what you think will happen, but SLA batteries are perfectly suitable for outdoor applications and the charge controller is designed for SLA batteries.
Out of curiosity, what is the effect of the weather sealing enclosure on the weather shield and the readings reported by the onboard sensors?? I m reasonably certain that it would introduce an error due to the enclosure.. so in effect, the only measurement you can truly rely on is the windspeed and wind direction.
You are correct! The humidity and temperature sensors can't be relied upon at all when sealed up like this. Thankfully I only need the data from the external sensors.
I'm curious what the total power consumption from the battery ends up being? Given that you're driving the arduino regulator to burn some of the power, I would expect a few hundred mA?
I'm just sending wind speed and average. I could easily add a line or two of code and send over rain data as well, but the indoor unit would have no way of handling it. But you can easily send over whatever is needed from the unit.
Nice follow up for the wind chime project. I had one of those weather stations and the UV destroyed it after about a year. Also watch out for the poor hall effect sensor in this....I was getting some horrible bouncing and it would register some crazy amounts of rain and wind. Hopefully your sparkfun device has debouncing code built into it.
Now I want to build a solar/battery project of some kind, thanks a lot! Haha
I like the radio solution.
Thanks! It's cheap and easy for people that don't really like relying on code.
I don't know much about this stuff, but I believe those batteries shouldn't be used with those controllers due lacking temperature control, seems particularly relevant for a weather station that will be exposed to the elements. just in case you want to double check that.
I'm not sure what you think will happen, but SLA batteries are perfectly suitable for outdoor applications and the charge controller is designed for SLA batteries.
Out of curiosity, what is the effect of the weather sealing enclosure on the weather shield and the readings reported by the onboard sensors??
I m reasonably certain that it would introduce an error due to the enclosure.. so in effect, the only measurement you can truly rely on is the windspeed and wind direction.
You are correct! The humidity and temperature sensors can't be relied upon at all when sealed up like this. Thankfully I only need the data from the external sensors.
I'm curious what the total power consumption from the battery ends up being? Given that you're driving the arduino regulator to burn some of the power, I would expect a few hundred mA?
Yeah, it's somewhere around there. Maybe 150mA in total? It's minimal and the battery can last for at least a week or more?
Are you getting rainfall data or just wind speed and direction?
I'm just sending wind speed and average. I could easily add a line or two of code and send over rain data as well, but the indoor unit would have no way of handling it. But you can easily send over whatever is needed from the unit.
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This isn't google.
Thank you