I've been freed from my silence in confidentiality...
If you're looking to buy a great weather station, keep an eye out for the Acurite Atlas. They should be available some time in the spring. This is a phenomenal piece of equipment and truly rivals the more expensive lines like Davis. I've been a beta tester for Acurite for the past few months, running tests on the Atlas weather station. This thing is AWESOME and is leaps above what their 5 in 1 was. The optional, built in lightning detector is highly accurate as well. It also has a built in UV Sensor which I'm looking forward to using this summer.
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I know right? I'm a bit discouraged by this whole thing. Acurite had even sent me a second Atlas to test. It was junk though so I went back to my first test model which is still running nicely. However over the last few months, we've heard nothing. Not sure what they're doing there.
Hammond, LA NWS COOP ID: 16-7425-08 CoCoRaHs ID: LA-TG-23
I know right? I'm a bit discouraged by this whole thing. Acurite had even sent me a second Atlas to test. It was junk though so I went back to my first test model which is still running nicely. However over the last few months, we've heard nothing. Not sure what they're doing there.
I am going to be in the process of selling my house soon and building another. Once i get settled in i am going to look into Davis products.
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Will - Ascension Parish I can't remember offhand...I believe I have a 1" pipe in mine, but it's pretty well adjustable with a knob. Not just a set screw.
You can also get an adapter that allows you to extend the anemometer to the property height of 33'.
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Post by grisairgasm on Sept 24, 2018 16:21:46 GMT -6
Davis also makes a much more affordable all in one station. What I don’t like about it,and others is the inability to,separate the anamometer. My anamometer is separate in the Vantage Pro 2 which allowed a height of about 30ft and about 8ft above the roof line. I used some galvanized pipe and mounted it through the roof into the attic with a roof jack. The rest of the instrument suite is in the yard at 8ft making it easy to maintain and clean.
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Davis also makes a much more affordable all in one station. What I don’t like about it,and others is the inability to,separate the anamometer. My anamometer is separate in the Vantage Pro 2 which allowed a height of about 30ft and about 8ft above the roof line. I used some galvanized pipe and mounted it through the roof into the attic with a roof jack. The rest of the instrument suite is in the yard at 8ft making it easy to maintain and clean.
That's a nice feature of the Atlas as well. You can separate the anemometer from the rest of the sensors. They have an adapter that allows you to do so and it comes with 30' of cable. I have to say, the lightning detector in the Atlas (an optional add on, but very inexpensive) is pretty darn accurate. It doesn't plot on a map like or anything but gives you a distance of the strike, and keeps count of all the strikes. It also measures light intensity, hours and UV. The rain gauge is right on with my cocorahs gauge. Acurite did really well in the Atlas. Leaps and bounds above their 5 in 1.
This was from today...a little nearby storm that missed me on the east side. I believe the strikes I've had in a day was close to 500???
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