corvairbob

i have the lacrosse 79400 weather station and i have had tons of issues with the vane pointing in the correct direction. i have tried lots of different arrow styles and none seem to work. the last one i made seems to work the best but still not perfect. the issue is the vane just seems to be to easy spin. so does anyone happen to know if those bios style pointers will hold into the wind better than the ones that seem to be on most of the other style weather vane systems? i have a home made vane and anemometer on the shed and that pointer does a way better job of pointing to the wind. it is sensitive enough to move with the wind that rustles the leaves and does not whip around like a chopper blade in heavy winds. what i was hoping to do was find a weather station system the is kind of like the bios units that have the vane on the top of the unit and take the vane and electrics off and place them on my shed vane, but i need to get those in the 915mhz freq. for the lacrosse base unit. and the bios units i have found seem to all be 433mhz\. but if the bios vane can hold more steady in the wind i may just put that on the lacrosse and use it that way. so if anyone has the bios units and the vanes do hold steadier and do not whip around like tops then i will source one and try it. thanks

i got this 79400 model la crosse last fall and i know it does not have wifi but i'm curious if anyone has figured out yet how to get it fixed or find a way to get it online enough to see the unit on your phone. i also figured out the vane so it is a better at holding the wind direction without as some call it helicoptering. but it would be nice to be able to see the unit on my phone if just at home when i'm not in front of the display. it was made with a wifi chip but from what i learned it had an issue so the fmg turned off the wifi. but being there are lots of guys that like tinkering i'm curious if one of them has figured out a way around that issue. as for the unit mine looks to be close to what the local weather underground web site show for wind direction and temps, but the wind speed is not quite the same, that may just be a normal. thanks

ok did not get much for a reply so maybe this is not a good unit. however i did get one and after a lot of testing i got the vane to stabilize more than i expected. it is not perfect but it hold direction now to be inside of say west and west north west. or north and north east etc. what i did was take the factory wind vane off and i made my own design wind vane. it is adjustable for balance and made of stainless tubing. and no pointer plus a larger than normal fin. if any interest let me know i will send a picture of what i have. because my system sets like 25' to the east side of a bunch of trees that sets up turbulence, or what some call eddie currents and sometime those wip the vane around but it returns fast to the prevailing wind direction. what i may do in the warmer weather is take it down and build a tail that is shaped like a plane tail fins so the wind has to curve around the tail and maybe that will hold it better in those currents. also i have been thinking of using a blaa for the tail to see if that holds better? your ideas on that? thanks bp.

i got the la crosse 79400 weather station and it send out the wind speed and direction about every 30 seconds. but i would like to get it to send the data out a bit faster. what happens is the wind lets say is trending from the west. then it buffets from the east and the station see that blip and about that time it send me that direction. so what is happening is i see the wind from a different direction than what is is actually trending from. la crosse says it can't be done but there must be some kind to timer in the station that triggers the refresh rate. maybe a resistor or with luck a pot. my guess is they worry the battery will not keep up and the solar panel will not be able to recharge the battery, however i can put the station on a power supply if needed. thanks