[Weather] [personal] Weather PCB dimensions

[Dave McGuire]

Jacob Potter wrote:
> On 11/19/06, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
>>    I'd do it ultrasonically.  Transducers are cheap, microcontrollers
>> are cheap, there are designs floating around (there was even one in
>> Ciarcia's magazine recently), you get both wind speed and direction
>> from the same sensor, and it eliminates moving parts.
> 
> How's the accuracy, though? I think I remember hearing that they
> weren't that great.

  That is a very good question; I don't really know about their
accuracy.  However, I will point out that many remote meteorological
stations are using them nowadays...but I don't know what their accuracy
requirements are.

  Perhaps some investigation is in order.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Cape Coral, FL