The system is Davis Vantage PRO2 This is a wireless system receiving signals at the base console from the basic weather instruments:Outside Temperature/Humidity sensor. Wind speed and direction from Anemometer/Wind vane. Atmospheric pressure and internal temperature sensor sited indoors. Rain gauge, Exteral temp and humidity sited close to the amemometer in a Fan aspirated radiation screen.Two additional sensors transmit soil temperature at ground level and at a depth of 300mm
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The external instruments are
battery powered with assistance from fitted solar
panels. The base console is connected
through a serial cable via a datalogger to a comport on my PC using Windows XP. Data is updated half hourly to a summary page and a live situation is updated about every 10 seconds.
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