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Offline daveq

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Re: VP2 solar sensor
« Reply #30 on: August 08, 2007, 09:23:37 PM »
Correct, no dimensions.  You're supposed to lay it on the surface and punch mark the centers.  I just set the housing over it and can tell it's off by about 1/16 of an inch or so.  My son just told me you have to set two different items in Adobe in order to print out correctly.  I had 'do not scale' selected but there must be another setting.

Foxit Reader which I use will not display the image.

--Dave

Offline HoosierGuy

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  • Indiana
Re: VP2 solar sensor
« Reply #31 on: August 13, 2007, 12:15:07 AM »


  Why is the solar sensor so dang expensive?  Are they safe
in cold/snowy/icy weather? 

Offline sloweather

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Re: VP2 solar sensor
« Reply #32 on: August 13, 2007, 12:36:39 AM »
at least you can go up on the roof.. I have metal shingles now, looks great,but the installer said it gets slick quick up there ...

What kind? We installed AlumaLock on our 6/12 roof, and I scamper around on it all the time. Just make sure you are wearing clean rubber soled shoes and that the roof is dry. You can make your shoes grippier by scuffing them on a new piece of roofing felt before you head up the ladder.
SLOweather Chris

Offline sloweather

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Re: VP2 solar sensor
« Reply #33 on: August 13, 2007, 12:41:01 AM »

  Why is the solar sensor so dang expensive? 

Price out a Davis UV sensor...

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Are they safe
in cold/snowy/icy weather? 

You have to figure that if Davis made it to be outside, its good in any weather just about any of us will experience. It is, after all, a "weather station". Not much use if you have to bring parts of it in for some of the year.
SLOweather Chris

 

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