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Originally Posted by mzsmbs
hey dieselpower,
a bit off on a tangent here but could you tell me more about this weather station thing you have going... i'd really like to do something like that too.
thanks and good luck with Hal and all the others...
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I bought one of those wireless weather stations from radio shack that also hooks up to a PC via a serial port. All the PC does, is log the readings to a data file as the sensors update. I have the full system with the rain guage, anemometer, wet bulb, dry bulb, indoor and outdoor temps. The anemometer is bolted to an unused TV antenna pole. All of the outdoor sensors are solar powered, with battery backups. They were running around $250 or so when I bought mine.
Here's an old photo of the system. It's currently in pieces, awaiting the installation of the 10 gig hard drive that is to be transferred from HAL, once its 120 gig drive is working.
This was the machine that prompted the upgrades, and the final bit of motivation to correct HAL's network problems.
WEATHER, as it is named on the network, used to be a P II 350 Mhz system, with a 1.5 gig hard drive. That "ancient" drive is now bad, and the on board IDE controller has always been flaky. Once up and runnign again, it'll be a P IV 1.5 gig box. Serious overkill for such a simplistic dedicated function.