Vantage Pro2 6163 Weather Station

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Davis Vantage Pro2 Plus Station 6163 with Solar Radiation & UV Sensors FREE SHIPPING - USA / $100 OFF INTERNATIONAL DELIVERIES This home weather station is a near scientific quality weather station and is manufactured to a quality standard known as "NIST" traceable. This wireless weather station has a transmission Range up to 1000'. Wireless repeaters are sold separately to increase range in 1,000' increments. Fastest Updating of Data at 2.5 Seconds! Includes display, Integrated Solar Powered Sensor Suite with Auto-Emptying Rain Bucket, Outdoor Temp and Humidity Sensor, Wind Gauge, and mounting hardware. For remote mounting of Anemometer, a wireless transmission kit is available. (Sold separately. Wireless Systems Only.) To operate this unit on AC power, a 220v - 110v power transformer is required for operation in many countries outside of the USA and Canada. Indoor Temperature & Humidity, Barometric Pressure, Tendency & Graph, Dew Point and Wind Chill "Streaming Ticker" with Current Weather Highlights! Over 100 different messages! View current data or highs and lows for up to 24 different days, months, or years. Weather Forecast icons: Sun, Partly Cloudy, Clouds, Rain, or Snow. 8 Moon Phases. Time and date including sunrise/sunset. Umbrella icon appears when it is currently raining. View daily rain, or rain for this storm, or season to date. Graph last 24 hours, days, or months of readings, or highs/lows. View over 80 graphs including additional analysis of temperature, rain, rain rate, wind, and barometric pressure. All without a computer! Storm Warnings and More: Set over 70 alarms! Compass rose with 16

Wireless range is up to 1000' (300 m) outdoors, line of sight
Typical range through walls under most conditions is 200' to 400' (60 to 120 m)

Davis Vantage Pro 2 PLUS AWESOME

Review Date: February 22, 2009

Reviewer: Tool Addict, Cambridge, Idaho United States

The BEST DAVIS has to offer to date....

The Vantage Pro2 PLUS is a great unit and for any weather hobbyist this home PWS (personal weather station) is in the professional category. I have had mine for two months and love it plus the data you send is recorded by NOAA, MESO and all the rest and the installation is very well explained step by step.. It is wireless and flawless, the wireless capabilities I think is 1,000 feet but with Davis you can purchase relay stations to put your station farther away from where the console is indoors that you receive your signal from. The anemometer (wind meter) has a 40' cable on it so you can put your weather station on a pole but mount the anemometer up to 40' away the ISS (the weather station body). The Plus2 comes with UV and Solar Radiation sensors and it is also fan aspirated and what that means is it has a low cfm fan inside to cool the interior so an accurate ambient temperature is read, this is the most accurate outdoor temp reading that can be done thanks to that little fan moving air very slowly through the interior of the ISS-weather station. Maintenance is low, you may have to open it up once or twice a year to clean the inside and remove dust or such but opening it up is very easy to clean.

The other things you will need when you purchase this unit is a mounting pole which come in kit form or you can fabricate. In the ground would be nothing more than a steel or galvanized pole set in concrete. Davis makes a universal galvanized tripod roof mount and it is very good, I own that but haven't installed it. I used an existing yard pole and took a regular satellite TV dish mount pole for an installation that would allow you to mount your satellite dish to an existing pole at your home, it works great for this purpose. If you live in SNO country then you will need the rain collector heater to melt snow fall to get the actual water content, you may purchase this at a later date if this weather station is tipping the budget in the initial purchase of the station itself.

You will also need to figure out what software you like to use, I like the WeatherLink I.P. as it directly uploads via a Cat 5 cable to your wired/wireless router/DSL modem, that is all automatic on the uploads and the Davis console for this unit is house current powered with a DC adapter PLUS it also has battery back up, 3 size C batteries...

This is a professional weather station but do not be overwhelmed by that.. Davis offers excellent support and the instructions that come with their products are pretty much idiot proof meaning easy. I would say if you can set up a brand new computer then you can set this Davis weather station up via the instructions and if you get stumped Davis support is there for you....

If you are thinking of having fun as a weather enthusiast/hobbyist then this professional weather station is for you..

5 STAR RATING....... I selected the 5 STAR rating but it ended up showing only a 4 star rating, a glitch in the upload I guess.

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