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Offline pwta

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Re: Davis Vantage Pro 2 - separating rain bucket and temp on ISS
« Reply #15 on: February 02, 2012, 12:06:32 PM »
I just bought a Vp2 wireless and I want to separate the anemometer and put it on a 30 feet tower, that I can do. will have to extend the cable from the anemometer by about 18ft. The cable will run through conduit in the ground to a pole in the middle of a grassy area where I am putting the other sensors.  And I want to  separate the rain bucket and temp/humidity sensors. I can see there is about 1ft of cable from the control box to the T/H sensors. I want to put the H/T sensors into a Stevenson Screen and mount the rain bucket above it on the same pole. If I were to use a joiner to extend the cable, Can i just use standard telephone cable to extend both. I would only want to extend it by around 3ft. Any suggestions.

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Re: Davis Vantage Pro 2 - separating rain bucket and temp on ISS
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2012, 05:58:37 PM »
I have all sensors separated here. Rainbucket, T/H, solar and UV have all their own extended cables, length about 5-6m or so each. The connections done with waterproof 3M Scotchlock's, easy to add, cheap, and works just perfect, even wothout additional shielding. As cables i have used plain normal phone-wires, just remember to check how many wires each sensor needs first ;)
Ex. the solar/UV-connections are up in my windpole without any more shielding than the Schotclock's itslef gives, this in our wintry conditions :)

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Re: Davis Vantage Pro 2 - separating rain bucket and temp on ISS
« Reply #17 on: February 26, 2012, 11:15:58 AM »
I ended up seperating all of the sensors. I put the anemeter on a 30 ft tower. The Rain sensor and temp/hum sensor are mounted on a pole in the middle of the yard. I put the temp/hum sensor in a homemade stevenson screen. It all works great.