Mounting The Ambient Weather Station | How To
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
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I recently received the Ambient Weather WS-2902 WiFi Smart Weather Station as a gift and have had a lot of fun setting it up! Check out this easy way of mounting your weather station to get more accurate readings. Remember to get your station up in the air and away from major structures. If you find this video helpful please like and subscribe!
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Very Smart. Just what I am looking for to install my weather station. Thank you
Glad to help
Thanks for the info. I've got a post in the ground from a previous project. Looking at doing a hinged mount for maintenance. Read you have to clean the rain gauge monthly. Would have liked a close up showing how it attaches to the pole. Other than that? Very helpful.
It attached to the top of the pole using 2 smaller U-bolts to hold it in place, as seen in the beginning of the video. Very straight forward. I haven’t cleaned the rain gauge in a year and still seems to be quite accurate for my purposes. I haven’t even had to replace the batteries yet. I’ve been very impressed with it. I’m happy you found this helpful!
The pole for use on top of a fence like that holding your dog in is about 10' long. One ham radio operator I know uses two of them to get some of his antennas up. One would be nice for holding the station up.
That’s what I used for mine
you shoud use a level not a tape measure to ensure the pole mount is plum
Don’t forget to balance levels required due rain and wind direction
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Can you link the pole and the clamps that you used in the video ?
Thank you for sharing your installation. I got one for xmas, and am currently planning to set one up in my backyard. BTW, is your station shared online so others can view the readings ?
Yes it is! There is an option to turn off that feature during the set up process
Thanks for your video - I think this is one of the best setup's as it is very simple and allows one to quickly take down the station for cleaning, battery change-out, etc... Question - is there another name for the "Railing Holder" you used in your setup? I tried to look on Home Depot's website & Amazon but couldn't find something similar. Could you provide a link to either Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, amazon, etc...of the "Railing Holder" you used? Also, was that a 10' pole you used? Any updates a few months later?? TIA!
www.lowes.com/pd/SteelTek-1-1-4-in-Silver-Galvanized-Steel-Structural-Pipe-Fitting-Rail-Support/999930990 This is the fitting you are looking for. Just make sure it matches the rail size you are using I believe it was an 8 ft section. So far this has been working great. No issues and gives good consistent readings. Only trouble I had was resetting it after a power outage but all I had to do was power down the dock station inside and restart it and everything went back to normal.
I have a LA crosse technology weather station with wind speed, wind direction, temperature, humidity, feels like temp, dew point, and wind speed trend.
Is 13' 4" off the ground a good height for the wind speed, It will put the anemometer 14 feet above the ground? My roof is roughly 25-30 feet high, but there is no there to put it since it is a very slanted roof, and some places are higher than others.
Yeah that should be fine as long as it is not too close to the house.
@@homeprojectswithnickIt's roughly 42 feet from the house
I like your setup do you have some sway?
No sway at all. It’s actually quite rigid. Just had a storm go through with gusts up to 30mph with no movement whatsoever. I live in a forest tho so my wind speeds are somewhat less than open fields. I can lean on it pretty heavily with no flexing or wobbling.
I think you forgot the grounding in case off a lightning.
Understandable concern. I am surrounded by huge trees so the risk is low.
What size (thickness)pole did you use and did it seat all the way to the bottom of the weather unit. And where did you purchase the pole?
It is a standard steel fence post for a chain link fence. Should be able to find it at any hardware store. I believe it’s 2in diameter. I got mine at Lowe’s
Need 33 feet up in air. Due winding mess up wind direction and must be perfect balance too
33 feet up is not reasonable for most people. More accurate Wind speed and direction is really the only big benefit of being up that high. 12-15 ft up for most people will be fine.
...not feasible, especially when you have to deal with this unit requiring battery change. It's powered by solar, but does not have rechargeable batteries?
@@vy1w1yv i have one. Solar for fan only. Not for batteries charging. Fan for temperature. I just found out after I cleaned it and maintained. Interesting
did you ground this?
I did not. There’s enough high trees around me it seems relatively low risk
Don't you mean the pole is plumb? After all it is vertical..,🤨
Words are hard sometimes haha I’m getting the terminology sorted out. Slowly…
AneMOMeter not AneNOMeter
I’ll admit a rookie mistake on that one!
@@homeprojectswithnick haha your good😂
Too low to the ground