Hi all!
I'm new to this forum and pretty much to the weather stations world too!
I read this thread, and the post with the proposition of building an homemade anemometer chatched my attention. Through a quick search on the net I gathered a series of link and discussion. I'm not an electrician expert, and hence I would not know what to do with those informations, but they maybe can help you!
The most interesting of all would be this one-that AFAIK-would be the more complicated to build:
Ultrasonic anemometer for an absurdly accurate weather station (extremely precise project logs
here) [
via]
Standard-Egg's_Cup-like anemometer (
in this site, in the '
sensor' quadrant, there are a tons of good post about different projects regarding various kinds of sensors for weather stations)
This one taken from archive.org also very detailed, but unfortunately without photos
These are those that to me seemed more 'precise'. Again, I'm not an engineer, nor an electronic savvy, so all these links may be useless to your aims..
In every case, still looking forward to buy your weather station---as long as the pcb returns to be available again---as my first one!
P.s.: I've listed the links here and not in the DIY area of the forum, forgive me
EDIT1
Digging the net for more infos on Inspeed instruments, I came across their blog. At the bootom of this page, the
Wind Speed Sensor can be bought for $22.55, as well as the
Wind Direction Sensor for $24.45
These should be the sensor you've mentioned in a previous post.
By adding the 'speed'-sensor to
this we should be able to get a pretty decent and accurate anemometer for a quite accessible price, isn't it? Or are there missing parts whom I am not awere of?
Unfortunately there is no the metal cups spare parts options! Didn't asked them if it is possibile to order them as well 'outside' their online market (the price should be $40.00 which, I think, is more than acceptable for nearly always living parts).