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(More customer reviews)Oregon Scientifics Advanced Weather Station with Wirless Sensor Set, Model: WMR90A
It's a cool little device for providing weather information for your immediate area. My unit came with the Base Station, Wind Sensor and Rain Collector. The base station was quite easy to set up just insert the batteries and it communicates by radio with the atomic clock in Fort Collins, Colorado which has a range of 2,000 miles and the date and time synchronizes magically! The instruction manual was easy to follow however because of its uniqueness as an electronic device it requires more attention and focus going through the manual. Installation of the Wind Sensor requires a trip on your roof to look for a good spot and the package comes with everything you need to install it onto a 1-1/2" pvc pipe. The controls takes some getting use to. Not that it is dificult or confusing but to familiarize yourself with its interface and how the engineers had designed this particular weather stations use. Once you've installed the Wind Sensor and the Rain Collector the fun begins with reading inside and outside temperatures and humidity. Wind Speed and Barometric pressures. And if your lucky enough to have it rain you can read the rainfall by the hour. After playing around with it you begin to realize that you can hook up to 10 sensors. With the Wind Sensor and the Rain Collector occupying 2 of the 10 sensor possibilities I began to realize that I can install another wireless sensor in the garage, another sensor upstairs and the other in our green house and monitor the temperature that our plants are having to endure. Upon searching for extra sensors to accomplish this I ran into another sensor that can be placed in a pool or a Koi Pond so that you could monitor the temperature of the water for these two completely different applications.
Wish List: After playing with it, I would have loved for the base station to have bluetooth capabilities to bluetooth with my computer and have the ability to make comparisons with say the Almanac data and read the temperature for all of the sensors simultaneously.
The Cons: The installation of the batteries on the Rain Collector was difficult only because you must deal with very tiny #0 screw sizes. And there are 8 tiny screws that you have to deal with. There is a reset button that is below the surface of the body that requires something pointy like a pen to depress. The reset button does not give you any indication that you've depressed it properly. Also, the lcd screen could use a backlight because the symbols (icons) are difficult to see.
I would recommend this Weather Station. It was a well thought out device and has expansion capabilities that can grow with my needs. Along with your iphone, laptop, digital camera, full size truck, riding lawn mower, power tools, lcd tv in the garage and taylormade golf clubs this little device fortifies anybodys want for more cool stuff.
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