Maintaining the Outside Temperature Humidity Sensor in Vantage Pro2 weather station

Maintaining the Outside Temperature Humidity Sensor in Vantage Pro2 weather station

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Maintaining the Outside Temperature Humidity Sensor in Vantage Pro2 weather station will assure that your weather instruments will continue to perform at their highest accuracy. 

These are some issues that you may encountered if your not maintaining the Outside Temperature Humidity Sensor in Vantage Pro2 weather station. 

• Dust build-up can interfere with air flow over the sensor.

The common solutions you may used in maintaining the anemometer wind vane is the following. 

• When you remove the plate in the radiation shield on which the the temp-hum board is installed, you will see a small, white, vented cover lined with gold-colored mesh. 
• Using a clean, dry toothbrush, gently remove any dust from the cover. 
• You can remove the cover from the board and take out the mesh to do a more thorough cleaning if necessary

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Maintaining the Anemometer Wind Cups in Vantage Pro2 weather station

Maintaining the Anemometer Wind Cups in Vantage Pro2 weather station

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Maintaining the Anemometer Wind Cups in your weather station will assure you that your weather data will continue to perform at their highest accuracy.

These are some issues you may have encountered if no regular maintenance has been made into your anemometer wind cups.

• Spiders and other insects can interfere with the rotation of the cups. 
• Debris.

The common solutions you may used in maintaining your anemometer wind cups is to do the following:

• If wind speed seems low, use an Allen wrench to loosen the setscrew on the side of the wind cups. 
• Remove the wind cups, and clean the exposed portion of the shaft with a damp cloth or cotton swab. 
• Clean the wind cups with water and a mild liquid detergent. Rinse thoroughly before replacing.
• After replacing the wind cups and tightening the setscrew, check to make sure that the wind cups spin freely. 
• If they do not, the bearings may be worn and need factory repair.

Caution, take an extra precaution when doing the maintenance.

• Do not use or add grease, oil, or a spray lubricant of any kind in your anemometer.

 

 

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Maintaining the Anemometer Wind Vane in VP2

Maintaining the Anemometer Wind Vane in VP2

Thursday, January 30, 2020

Maintaining the Anemometer Wind Vane will assure you that your weather instruments will continue to perform at their highest accuracy.

These are some issues you may have encountered if no regular maintenance of anemometer wind vane:

• Anemometer arm may have rotated out of proper orientation.
• Debris.

The common solutions you may used in maintaining the anemometer wind vane is to do the following:

• Check the orientation of the anemometer annually. 
• The console is factory-calibrated to report accurate wind direction when the anemometer arm is pointed due north.
• See your User Manual for details on how to calibrate your console’s wind direction if the arm cannot be mounted pointing north.

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Davis Instruments Weather 2020 Catalog

Davis Instruments Weather 2020 Catalog

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Introducing, Davis Instruments Weather 2020 Catalog.

This is a 2020 catalog released from Davis Instruments.

Read the catalog in a Portable Document File (PDF) format.

The front cover may look like the image below.

View Catalog PDF

 

 

 

 

 

 Please contact us with any further questions.

 

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Video: Installation Guide of Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus

Video: Installation Guide of Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus

Monday, December 16, 2019

Part 1 : Straight From The Box

The following video is a Straight From The Box of Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus.

Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station Installation - Part 1: Straight From The Box

This is a first video in a three-part series covering the installation/replacement of 11 years old Vantage Pro2 weather station. In this first part, we look at the contents of a newly purchased Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station.

Posted by Davis Vantage Pro2 PH on Tuesday, August 10, 2021

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This is the first video in a three-part series covering the replacement of 11 years old Vantage Pro2 station. In this first part, we look at the contents of a newly purchased Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station.

 

 

Part 2 : Mounting the Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) and Anemometer

The following video is a Mounting the Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) and Anemometer of Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus.

 

 

Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station Installation - Part 2: Mounting the Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS) and Anemometer

This is the second video in our three-part series covering the replacement of our 11 years old Vantage Pro2 station. In this second part, we mount/install the Integrated Sensor Suite and a remote anemometer. The remote anemometer requires the use of a Davis Wireless Transmitter (6332). We will show you how to configure this unit as well.

Posted by Davis Vantage Pro2 PH on Tuesday, August 10, 2021

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This is the second video in our three-part series covering the replacement of our 11 years old Vantage Pro2 station. In this second part, we mount/install the Integrated Sensor Suite and a remote anemometer. The remote anemometer requires the use of a Davis Wireless Transmitter (6332). We will show you how to configure this unit as well.

 

 

Part 3 : Configuring the Console and Installing WeatherLink

The following video is a Configuring the Console and Installing WeatherLink.

 

Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Weather Station Installation - Part 3: Configuring the Console and Installing WeatherLink

This is the third video in our three-part series covering the replacement of our 11 years old Vantage Pro2 station. In this final installment we will begin configuring the Vantage Pro2 Weather Station Console (6312). This console is used on both the Pro2 and Pro2 Plus models. We also cover the installation and configuration of WeatherLink for the local storage of your observational data. We finish the video with a look into wx2sql, the program that I use to store my weather observations in a MYSQL database.

Posted by Davis Vantage Pro2 PH on Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Help: Click on 720p for a video high quality resolution.

This is the third video in our three-part series covering the replacement of our 11 years old Vantage Pro2 station. In this final installment we will begin configuring the Vantage Pro2 Weather Station Console (6312). This console is used on both the Pro2 and Pro2 Plus models. We also cover the installation and configuration of WeatherLink for the local storage of your observational data. We finish the video with a look into wx2sql, the program that I use to store my weather observations in a MYSQL database.

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New Tipping Spoon in Vantage Pro2 Products

New Tipping Spoon in Vantage Pro2 Products

Thursday, July 25, 2019

 Introducing, the New Tipping Spoon in Vantage Pro2 Products.

New Tipping Spoon in Vantage Pro2 Products will Add even greater rain accuracy.

Davis just upgraded from tipping buckets to tipping spoons in all our Vantage Pro2 rain collectors. The new spoon increases our already-great accuracy from ±4% to ±3%.

If you're in the Philippines, buy your own Davis Weather Station now!

You may contact us or email us below to request quotation .

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Mining Weather Station in Masbate

Mining Weather Station in Masbate

Sunday, July 14, 2019

A Mining Weather Station systems that are used in mining operations to automate the data collection process of your sensors.

Heat stress, heavy rains, winds, and lightning are all elements that must be closely watched to ensure personnel safety and ease of operations.

As we all know that Mine managers are require an accurate and timely site specific weather data for a number of reasons.

Take one of our example from the Masbate gold mine, located on Masbate Island, about 360 km southeast of Manila in the Philippines, is the largest gold mine in the Philippines.

B2Gold’s Audie Altiche takes his role of protecting the environment at the Masbate Gold Project seriously. He, and everyone in the mine’s Environmental Department, must know exactly what’s going on with their local weather to keep the workers, neighbors, water, soil, plant life, and animals that could be affected by the mine’s activities protected.

You can check out the weather at Masbate here.

Davis Instruments also posted this information from their website. You can read it here from Internet Archive, Title : WeatherLink Provides Real-Time Data to Gold Mining Operations (just incase they will remove it from their website).

Well, what are you waiting for?

Making a selection and contacting a Davis Instruments distributor in the Philippines right now is the simplest way to get started!

Please contact us or fill up the following form if you require assistance with Mining Weather Station. 

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