Dear Traj, X-Air, dfw, and WeatherCat welcome wagon . . .
Welcome Traj to the WeatherCat forum!
We were hit with a terrible winter and our house suffered immense water damage from ice dams.
So sorry to hear that! Glad you have managed to get through that ordeal though.
Greetings! I've been collecting data since 2008, when I installed my OS WMR968.
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I have brought my station back online, however the anemometer went belly up. I had already replaced that once before.
Well it is any comfort I also started out with an Oregon Scientific WMR968. However, I gave up on it after the anemometer died after just a year. Sounds like you had better luck with that product.
Last week I decided to order the Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus. It is due to be delivered tomorrow.
A lot of us have Davis Vantage Pro-2 stations. They aren't indestructible, but they are very tough.
So, I will be switching over as soon as my logger arrives. Rather than using Weatherlink, I purchased a USB logger via the http://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=25564.0 thread and I'm not sure how long it will take to arrive.
I am curious if others have used a 3rd party logger with their setup.
I don't believe anyone on this forum is using the 3rd party data loggers. Most of us set up our station before finding out about it. I think your best bet is to keep an eye on the reports on WXForum. That forum has enough numbers that you'll see how people have done with these 3rd party loggers.
The only downside of the third party loggers is that they aren't really loggers if I recall correctly. There isn't any storage on them - am I correct? It isn't a big deal if you plan to run WeatherCat 24/7, but if you have a mishap it means you have some time before you really start to lose data. If you are curious, we have a table of how long a Davis data logger can go without connecting to WeatherCat and still not lose any data. It is on the WeatherCat Wiki:
http://wiki.trixology.com/index.php/Capacity_of_the_Davis_data-logger_to_store_weather_data_depending_on_the_chosen_sampling_intervalBest of luck with the station changeover and once more welcome to the WeatherCat forum!
Cheers, Edouard