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Weather Station
Overview
A Environdata Weather Maestro weather station is mounted on the Broadway Building rooftop.
Sensors
The Weatherstation is a Environdata Weather Maestro DL30. It has the following sensors installed:
- Tipping Bucket Rain Gauge (RG12 Series)
- Solar Radiation Sensor (Pyranometer SR40)
- Air Temperature Sensor (TA40 Series)
- UVA Sensor (Skye UVA SKU 420)
- Wind Direction Sensor (WD45)
- Wind Speed Sensor (WS45)
Methodology
The weatherstation is wirelessly polled every 10 minutes. It reports the following variables:
- Air Temperature (°C)
- UVARadiation (0-100W) (Watts/m²)
- Solar Radiation (Watts/m²)
- Rain Gauge
- Rain Gauge (mm)
- Rain Total from 9am (mm)
- Wind Instruments (0° is True North)
- Inst. Wind Speed (km/h)
- Inst. Wind Direction (Degrees)
- Peak Wind Gust (km/h)
- E/-W Wind Speed (VSin) (km/h)
- Wind Direction Sine
- Wind Direction Cosine
- N/-S Wind Sp (VCos) (km/h)
- Wind Direction (Degrees deviation from North)
- Maintenance Variables
- Battery Voltage (V)
- Solar Voltage (V)
- Charge Current (mA)
- Load Current (mA)
- Communications (Minutes)
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weather_station.txt · Last modified: 2021/01/10 23:16 (external edit)
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