On these unusually cold mornings I would like an accuate temerture reading outside. Weather Underground web site says 32. My new Accurite wireless digital indoor/outdoor says 30. My alcohol regular outside says 26. What's the solution? I'm tempted to rely on the $10 Accurite but probably because it's the newest and most expensive.
What do you use?
TIA
I suspect that with sun and wind, each may be accurate. The unit in my vehicle reads two degrees high, if the radio says 32, my truck will read 34. Of course, you might want to get a non contact IR thermometer, point it at some thing in the shade, and see how that reads.
I have a La Crosse wireless. It closely tracks the reported weather service temps. I have a couple Accurite non-wireless, cheap units. Can't say I've paid a lot of attention to how accurate they are, but for temp, I haven't noticed anything unusual, readings seem right. For humidity, they are not even close. I've had 3 of them side by side, they are differ by 25 between them. You can calibrate them using a closed container with damp salt.
I guess if you want to test the accuracy of your temp unit, you could probably devise a test. I would think if you took a picnic cooler, filled it 3/4 full with a mix of ice and water, put the thermometer on top of something floating in there, closed it up, left it alone for an hour, it should be 32F.
the solution is to throw away two of the thermometers.
A Davis Vantage and the 60(+?) indoor/outdoor dial both are generally with a couple degrees at most and the conventional is mounted on the north porch where it may have some influence from the house...both are also generally within a degree or so of the local airport readings altho it's easily possible for there to be a few degrees real in the indicated owing to local cloud cover, wind variations, elevation, installation, etc., etc., etc., ...
The other point on using one is valid... :)
Hi, I have Davis weather station on a mast in the front yard. It gives all weather parameters wirelessly on the console inside. Quite pricy but very good stuff, worth the money.
Stop buying your thermometers at McChinamart if you are concerned about accuracy.
I have an outside wireless and see similar "discrepancies" The difference is location. One is mounted in the shade about 8' of the ground and 10' from the house. It is generally 1 to 2 degrees higher than the one in my car closer to the ground. I also have two weather apps on my phone and they differ a couple of degrees from each other and from my readings. They evidently us different sources too, when the town is looked up. There the local radio station . .
I watch my car thermometer on the 24 mile commute to work. Some days there is little to no variation, other days it can swing five degrees along the way depending on wind, altitude, sun load, snow cover and more.
Is the Accurite next to the alcohol? If so, that is a big difference and I'd probably trust the Accurite.
LOL!!.....
Good one, PR. ;)
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I've been pricing home weather stations for yrs. Davis always looked like the clear winner until I found a home weather station forum and ppl with Davis stations were not so happy. It boiled down to, if yer gonna get a station that's gonna fail, why spend so much money.
So, apparently, Davis station are not the bullet proof heavy duty units you are led to believe by the price tag.
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Hi, Davis has range of product you can choose from. Mine is just wireless and only thing it needed was new battery. No problem what so ever. Professional grade ones are much more expensive. It can feed real time readings to NOAA grid via Internet too. May be those who are not happy were who don't know what they are doing. I always see this on other products. They buy beyond their ability to use it properly and complain, go out buy another newer one and complain again. At least I know what I am doing with every thing I own and use. Davis have all the replacement parts for repair if problem occurs.
On 1 Jan 2015 14:33:13 GMT, KenK wrote in
An average of my two outdoor thermometers.
Ed Pawlowski wrote in news:PvadnS8sYabf7DjJnZ2dnUU7- snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:
Yes
That's what I decided too. Or just go with one temperature source as others suggested. There's an old joke about that but for the life of me I can't think of the subject.
"Pico Rico" wrote in news:m83ob5$kml$ snipped-for-privacy@news.mixmin.net:
LOL
A man with one watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
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While I always recommend Fluke products, I jes looked at the last 3 Fluke meters I purchased. One is from China, one from Taiwan, and the
3rd doesn't say.China's crappy manufactured products are only as good as the parent company, which is typically US based. Remember when "Made in Japan" was a sure sign of junk? Well, as Japan got their act together, many of Japan's mfr'd products became the gold std. Same will happen to China. Their products will continue to improve, but only as good as the parent company. I trust Chinese made Flukes are good meters. They've proved to be, so far.
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Hi, Problem is not made in China. On what specs they are made there? Most every thing is made in China, like Apple product. Even my high end AV receiver is made there but QC is strict and nothing wrong with it. Just like old saying "you get what you pay for"
I have an Oregon Scientific remote in a sheltered location on the north side of my house and it seems to be quite accurate. I certainly would never expect it to match the 'official temperature' which is measured at the airport 20 miles away in completely different terrain. I would expect it to be a bit closer to what the radio station reports since they use their own instruments on the campus which is about 5 miles away and it usually is. Temperatures can be wildly different in locations even in your own yard. Microclimates is the term.
Glad you did mention in since, upon checking, I saw that the remote was indicating the batteries were getting weak. The AAA cells seem to go dead much more quickly when it is cold.
BTW the other temperature remote is in the 'wine cellar' which is a rack in a back room in the basement.
On Thu, 01 Jan 2015 12:31:13 -0700, Tony Hwang wrote in
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Hi, Lithium batteries last much longer. One in L.L. Bean remote is almost 3 years old and still fine.
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