New/Old weather hardware for my Mobile installation!

[Doc]

  HAPPY HOGMANAY!  


Well, it was a good go for a while, but my mobile weather station has died.  Killed off by the greedy/murderous branches in the local foliage.  TREES

A few hungry branches reached out and made a meal out of my wind sensors leaving nothing but a few dangling wires. 

I had an interesting christmas, many of my ilk sent me new and improved sensors.  Now I'm needing help, not all anemometers are created equal.  I have, three different Davis consoles.  My main Vantage Pro 2+ which is the WC console.

I have a Davis Weather Monitor III and a Weather Wizard.  All of these use their two wire reed switch sensing method. 

I also have an old Digitar (Davis bought them out and their sensors are the same as Davis), it's a Weather Master console, with sensors, and the rain bucket will work great mobile, it is smaller than the Davis but it has no moving parts, it uses a siphon switch method of sensing rain. 

I have a Vaavud anemometer for the iPad, works pretty well, but you have to hold your iPad into the wind.

And then I have this nice ARMORed anemometer from China, really heavy duty, nearly military.  I think it might have been designed for ships and industry.

It came with no instructions for wiring and no console or meter.  This is my problem!  It's labeled as a LongSone Anemometer model no. LSYS-P, with output signal-pulse.  There is a heavy duty plug socket on the side and it is mounted on a flat flange leaving many good mounting options for it.

The three wires coming from the cable were labeled as red-12v+, black-ground and yellow-signal.  The only technical information given was that it gives 12pulses per rotation of the cups.  It is not switched using reed switches.  The only signal I have been able to read was on my Hz meter, nothing else.  I was told that this was an NPN pulsed device.  So far I haven't found a circuit/meter I could built to work with this. 

So I'm wondering if anybody has any experience with these anemometers, it would be great on the truck, and might even survive the local trees if I could get some output from it.  Even if the curcuit just made it compatible with the Davis (would be nice), or was something I can build that has a meter I can retask.  Or does anybody know of a current company making a display for this sort of sensor.

Your help would be great. 

Thanks All, Doc

(who is once again recovering from surgery, good time this one.  I have Bariatric surgery last week, last hope for weight loss here, but doing very well at the moment)

[elagache]

Howdy Doc and WeatherCat adventurers!

Thanks for checking back in! 

Best of luck in getting your mobile station back into operation.  I have feeling though it is going to take a fair amount of tinkering.

Hope the recovery from the surgery goes well too.  You've had more than your quota!

Cheers, Edouard 

[jace]

Hi Doc

I've done a very quick search on the UK version of eBay, and they are on sale over here. The contact in eBay is longsone-us1,  but are based in China.

There is some technical information about the output interface on the page, and obviously you could contact the seller via eBay email.

The link to the page in eBay.co.uk is: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wind-Speed-Sensor-Three-Cup-Anemometer-Aluminium-Alloy-DC5-24V-Pulse-output-/171026916348

It's probably on eBay.com as well.

Hopefully if some help.

 

JC

[Doc]

Edouard, thanks, the surgery went well, I had my first followup and in a week and a half post op, I'd lost 17 pounds and was healing nicely.  I will have a couple more surgeries in my future, but those are simple and easy compared to the rest.

Thanks again.

JC, thanks for the information and the link,  It's the same one I was given, and has the same output.  Mine doesn't have the weather cap for the socket, but that's OK.  Everything else is the same as was their description.  I sent them an e-mail for further information.

Seems the weather industry is either very open (Davis and their reed switched anemometer) or very secretive as with this sensor.

Doc

[WCDev]

Good to see you Doc - good luck with the anemometer 

[Doc]

Thanks Stu!  JC, thanks for the link it put me on to a different vendor and that led to two more vendors who were a little more helpful, I know have a good schematic of the anemometer now.  And a better idea of where to go with it.  If I take a tachometer meter, it should be able to read the pulses and give me a display, from there all I need is to calibrate it and I'll have a working, heavy duty anemometer for the truck.  I may even be able to drive a reed relay to make it work with the Davis inputs as well. 

Doc