New Ambient Weather WS-2080 Wireless Home Weather Station
New Ambient Weather WS-2080 Wireless Home Weather Station
- The Ambient Weather WS-2080 is a compact, easy to install complete weather station with impressive reliability at a very low cost.
- This weather station measures wind speed, wind direction, temperature and humidity (both inside and outside), rainfall and barometric pressure.
- The console of the weather station displays a wide range of parameters in an easy-to-read format on a large LCD. The attractively thin console can be placed on a desktop or mounted to a wall.
- Includes a USB port and EasyWeather PC software, a simple to use windows application that allows real time monitoring. It can be used to progam weather station parameters and alarms. You can also log data .
New Ambient Weather WS-2080 Wireless Home Weather Station
I'm a weather nerd. I've had several home
weather stations over the years, some were better than others. Davis'
stations are the best on the market, but they are expensive. You can
have four complete WS-2080's for the price of the least-expensive Davis
w/ the appropriate data-connect module. The Davis machines are
definitely superior in accuracy & build quality and are (I believe)
made in the US. All great things, and if you're very serious about home
weather then Davis is the way to go. But if you're looking for a
decent home weather station that has PC/Mac + Internet capabilities for a
low price, the WS-2080 is an excellent choice. I've had mine up and
running for over a year now, with no problems.
I've had no problems with the sensor range; my base is sitting about 75' away from the outside sensor, through 1 exterior (with a few windows) and 3 interior (no windows) walls. No connection problems at all.
Unlike some of the other low-cost home weather stations, I've not had any problems with erroneous data. It's clean. With a previous station I'd get frequent erroneous 57mph wind gusts when it rained, despite my best efforts of sealing & ferrite-choking the cables.
A few caveats:
1) Use good lithium batteries in the outside sensor unit. It takes two AA's. Yes, lithium's are 2-3 times as expensive as alkalines. But lithium batteries will last much longer than standard alkalines, and they are much better in the cold. I live in the midwest, and I'm still on the first pair of AA lithiums from over a year ago, and they went through a brutally cold winter without any complaints. Alkalines are fine for the base. My station's connected to a PC, so it is powered via the USB connection anyway.
2) Build quality of the sensors is very low. Read more ›
I've had no problems with the sensor range; my base is sitting about 75' away from the outside sensor, through 1 exterior (with a few windows) and 3 interior (no windows) walls. No connection problems at all.
Unlike some of the other low-cost home weather stations, I've not had any problems with erroneous data. It's clean. With a previous station I'd get frequent erroneous 57mph wind gusts when it rained, despite my best efforts of sealing & ferrite-choking the cables.
A few caveats:
1) Use good lithium batteries in the outside sensor unit. It takes two AA's. Yes, lithium's are 2-3 times as expensive as alkalines. But lithium batteries will last much longer than standard alkalines, and they are much better in the cold. I live in the midwest, and I'm still on the first pair of AA lithiums from over a year ago, and they went through a brutally cold winter without any complaints. Alkalines are fine for the base. My station's connected to a PC, so it is powered via the USB connection anyway.
2) Build quality of the sensors is very low. Read more ›
New Ambient Weather WS-2080 Wireless Home Weather Station
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