Ecowitt/Fine Offset. Man, there are a helluva lot of options. #wx #wxstation #cowitt #fineoffset
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andybrwn
In response to this post@ai6yr I picked up the Ecowitt station, and just recently got my Davis one working well (although I need to dig out some ancient software to get it spooling to the internet again). I expect the Davis would be more precise, but for my purposes the Ecowitt is good enough. Rain gauge seems overly sensitive to me. But other than the battery, near no maintenance plus you can add a bunch of other sensor options (which I have). Seems to be good value for the $$.
@andybrwn @ai6yr I've got an Ambient station, which is virtually identical to the Ecowitt ones. (I think they use literally all the same components.) The instructions say to clean it once a quarter, but every time I've checked it over the past 2.5 years, it's never needed much. I think I found a dead leaf partially blocking the rain gauge once.
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James Mitchell
In response to this post@ai6yr your best value I've found is to buy a large mix-and-match batch of stuff from Ecowitt directly, as their shipping can be a smidge steep, but they do quantity discounts and ship things together. I've been happy with the hardware and the software hasn't been bad
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