[Weather] Weather Display wind gust spikes

[Dale Chatham]

It may be that wiring as long as that is picking up radio frequency and 
seeing it as switch closures.

The solution is get a ferrite toroid for both ends and loop the wires 
through it several times on each end.  You might be able to get away 
with putting a .1 microfarad capacitor at each end as well.

That would be my guess.  'Course, there are probably a few dozen other 
things it could be as well.



Robert Cournoyer wrote:
> Firstoff, I apologize for the "out of office" auto-reply last week!  My
> wife went into labor and having the auto-reply reply back to the Weather
> Digest emails was the least of my worries.
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> Now for my weather related question.  I'm just getting started in the
> field of weather station building and currently have an AAG's 1-Wire
> Wind Instrument version 3 anemometer approximately 100 feet from my
> computer, which is using the USB connection.  The program I'm using is
> Weather Display.  What I've noticed is that last week when my area had
> it's first 90 degree days of the year, the Weather Display program was
> reporting wind gusts around 60-70mph!  The actual wind speed seemed
> correct - consistently around 0 to 5mph.  I checked out the data log and
> couldn't find any wind speed spikes that would be throwing the gust off
> that far.  Any ideas if it could be the actual wind instrument or a
> quirk of the program?  Thank you in advance.
>  
> Bob
>
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