Technical specs of weather station and computer
The Weather station is owned by: Alan Paul
Forecast written by: Alan Paul
Site designed and maintained by: James Paul
Site hosted by: www.webfusion.co.uk
Weather software:
Main Program : Weather Display written by Brian Hamilton who lives in New
Zealand.
Weather Display Live written by Julian Best who is located at Colchester.
(there is a link to his weather site on my "links" page)
Live Lightning:- Hardware manufactured by Boltek USA
Software written by Relko of Astrogenic, this firm is located in Sweden.
My thanks go out to Brian, Julian and Relko for all the excellent support
they have given me (not forgetting my son James) in setting up the software
and getting the information on to my Web site. Their quick email responses
were really appreciated and made all the difference.
Upgrade of weather station hardware.
The weather equipment has now been upgraded to a "Davis Vantage Pro" with a
fan aspirated radiation shield. The new equipment incorporates two
additional sensors for :- Solar radiation and UV radiation.
Information from the Davis instruments will give a higher degree of accuracy
than those from the previous equipment.
Computer Hardware
Case and PC boards purchased from
Maplin
Electronics
Processor is an AMD 3000+ Athlon 64bit with 1 Gigabyte of RAM. Operating
system: Windows XP home edition.
UPS Battery Backup - Belkin 1400va F6C1400-EUR
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