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Project History:
Back in 2007 this project was started and has grown as we learn more and better ways to communicate weather conditions.
Project updates:
- 2015- Replaced the well loved and worn out 1wire system with a Davis Vantage Pro II. All new instruments. A whole new learning curve.
- December 2011- completed the switchover from the Honeywell Weather Stationn to 1-wire. This means replacing the barometer, indoor temp/humidity, outdoor temp/humidity, adding soil temp instruments, a controller hub and an additional data line. UV monitoring should be in place during the next few days. This move was due to after almost 5 years the originial instruments were becoming too hard to maintain.
- November 2009, added live lightning capability with Boltek detection and NexStorm Software
- September 2009, added WXSIM to provide local forecasting abilities and a computer dedicated to forecasting and future projects.
- January 2009, replaced Honeywell anemometer with a 1- wire equivalent and added nightime cloud monitor.
- October 2008, added enhanced radar capabilities using GRLevel3 software
- July 2008, changed solar detection to a "solar in a jar" system.
- June 2008, added soil temperature detectors at depths of 1, 2, 3 feet; this was done to study how soil temperature changes as depth increases and as the seasons change -- this didn't work out well with the Honeywell system. There was a software conflict I couldn't fix
- January 2008 - Celebrated our first year of operation
- After the ice storm added a very large UPS that will hopefully allow me to safely shutdown the computers in case of long term power failure
- December 2007 -- Added dedicated local server to process weather instrumentation
- May 24, 2007 - Domain changed to www.eds-weather.info
- May 12, 2007 - Leaf Wetness detector added.
- April 21, 2007 - Solar radiation detector beta/calibration testing.
- April 7, 2007 - Replaced defective wind instruments. The original one would "fail high" under low wind conditions causing 60 + mph spikes on the graphs.
- March 2007 - Added a 1wire network lightning detector.
- February 2007 - Updated web site adding NOAA 7 day forecasts, watches, and warnings. Also, converted most pages to php for cross-browser compatibility.
- Mid-January 2007 - Put first web page up
- Early January 2007 - Installed weather station hardware in the middle of an ice storm with the help of Curtis.
Future Plans:
I plan to add the following instruments and improvements to the station:
- Developing a "mobile friendly site"
Project Hardware:
My original hardware consists of the following equipment:
Honeywell TE923W - "Professional Weather Station" (their descriptor) which includes:
- Indoor Temperature
- Barometric Pressure
- Indoor Humidity
- Rain (measured in .01 inch increments)
- Wind speed
- Wind direction
- UV
Which has been replace many times.
he current weather station is a Davis Vantage Pro 2
Project Software:
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