AcuRite Notos (3-in-1) Weather Station with Wind, Temperature, and Humidity (00638A3), Black and Metal

AcuRite 00638A2 Wireless Weather Station with Wind SensorThis a gift for my wife, who has wanted one for some time. I learned that you could spend a lot of money for one for a serious weather hobbyist, and probably get complexity that isn't wanted or needed. This little unit is GOOD, for a beginner who might want to move up later, and for someone who just wants to see a solid, basic weather system that gives a good introduction to reading the weather right at home. The receiving unit is well made, easy to read, and has buttons big enough for our arthritic old fingers. The manual is complete and easy to understand. Installation is quick and not complicated. I installed where my wife wanted it, wondering if it might suffer from electrical interference, and saw good steady readings on the meter that agreed with our other indoor/outdoor thermometers. The wind and pressure readings are fine, with the understanding that this old man is not about to place it high enough to escape wind interferences of our houses, or replace batteries when needed.THIS LITTLE INSTRUMENT JUST WORKS.... AND IT WORKS RIGHT! But it's not all pros and no cons: the manual recommends PVC pipe to mount it. That works, but the manual writers forgot Kansas winds! I strapped the pipe to a corner fence post with zip ties, and it sways like a buggy whip in any breeze at all, so I'll get a piece of steel pipe, set the pole into it and a minor problem will be no problem at all.

very good item. I will be outfitting all 3 of my mobile stages with these. If the weather gets bad people have to get off the stage and this does the job well.

This is a handsome unit with a small footprint which won't look ugly or upset the neighbors. It was easy to set up and the vanes are always turning, it even measures wind speed down to 1mph, something the Big Boys don't do. I have mounted it on a 10' pole where it captures all the wind and is not blocked by trees or houses. The signal is very strong and it captured the atomic time immediately. Now why it only gets 4 stars:It mounts on a 3/4" pole, readily available at Home Depot. Despite the admonitions that a metal pole might attract lightning, get one anyway. A plastic pole will whip in the wind, and lightning will hit the highest object, your house not the anemometer. Mounting this illustrates a true design flaw. When this is placed on a 3/4" pole, it needs to be tightend onto the pole by two set screws which tighten the two halfs together. Good luck. The screws are deeply recessed and are so tiny you can barely even see them. I do not exaggerate when I say you will need the smallest jewler's screwdriver on the planet, phillips head, to even make contact. Then you cannot generate enough torque to tighten the screws. This would be a deal breaker if the pole did not penetrate so far into the unit it could not fall off anyway. Were it mounted on a plastic pole the wind would whip it around so much it would fall off. Does the manufacturer ever test their products before rushing them to market???The final negative is something which is beyond control. During the day the solar radiation gives a temperature about 2-3 degrees above normal. It would be nice if there were a compensation feature which would allow this to be adjusted, but then the nighttime temperature would be off a few degrees. Also, a backlight should have been included. For you desert dwellers, the humidity level reads down to 1%, here in Las Vegas it is in the single degree range 6 months a year. This is rarely spelled out in the summary of products.To conclude, this is a well constructed station with the console extremely easy to read. If you can work around the limitations, you will enjoy it.To conclude, this

This is a nice weather measuring unit for the money. It is important when you purchase this to realize that the wind speed only updates every 18 seconds. This is the only draw back to the unit. If an instantaneous gust of wind occurs between the 18 second wind speed sampling time, you will miss it and only record the wind speed at that sampling time. This would explain why the wind speed often seems to read lower than perceived. The temperature and humidity are accurate. The barometric pressure reads about 0.10 inch of mercury too low but all in all it is a decent value for the money.

I bought this mostly because i was interested in the wind speeds at my house. . my house seems to get a wind speed about 10 mph below the one reported at the air port.the air port measures at like 50 feet , i'm measuring at 5 feet.seems to work great, i really enjoy all of the various different out puts. i did not opt for the better version with rainfall because i live in the desert and didn't think the few times a year would warrant. course it rained the last 2 days so now i'm thinking of maybe upgrading down the road.buy some double A's , works great. i did not use a PVC pipe as suggested, i think that part of the instructions is bad, a metal pipe would make more sense (wind will bend a pvc) .great product. works exactly as decribed!

Fair weather station, but for a little more you can get a much more of an updated weather station with a full color-screen and more instruments/detectors. Semi-accurate, easy to set up, and easy to read, note; it does not have a backlit screen.