Any other advice for setting up my station?
- It is a good idea to do the set-up in the comfort of your own home or office. Get the receiver set up, check the transmission is coming through, then take the sensor suite outside and check the transmission before digging the post hole and installing. This is especially true if you have a remote site
- Davis Instruments gear likes time when setting up. Why, we don’t know! It may take 5, 10, 15 minutes for a console to start receiving. EnviroMonitor nodes can take a few hours to start reporting. Once they are going, they will keep chugging away for years, but patience on set-up day is required
- For us in the Southern Hemisphere, the solar panel will need to face north. The North Americans would set up their Vantage Pro 2 (VP2) sensor suite with the solar panel facing south (to get maximum sun) and the anemometer facing north (to give accurate wind direction). We can install the wind sensor facing south and put in an adjustment of 180 degrees if we don’t want it blocking the solar panel