Casella CEL Nomad portable weather station User Manual

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Contents

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6.3.1

Wind Speed Sensor Specification . . . . . . . . 43

6.4

Wind Direction Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.4.1

Wind Direction Sensor Specification . . . . . . . 44

6.5

Global Solar Radiation Sensor

. . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

6.5.1

Global Solar Radiation Sensor Specification

. . . 45

6.5.2

Sunshine Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6.6

Barometric Pressure Sensor

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6.6.1

Barometric Pressure Sensor Specification

. . . . 45

6.7

Rainfall Sensor

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

6.7.1

Rainfall Sensor Specification

. . . . . . . . . . 46

6.8

Soil Temperature Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.8.1

Soil Temperature Sensor Specification . . . . . . 46

6.9

Leaf Wetness Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.9.1

Leaf Wetness Sensor Specification

. . . . . . . 47

6.10

Grass Temperature Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.10.1 Grass Temperature Sensor Specification . . . . . 48

7,

THE SENSUS DIGITAL DATA LOGGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

7.1

Brief Introduction to the Sensus Data Logger

. . . . . . 49

7.2

Commands

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.3

Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
7.3.1

Internal Capacity

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

7.3.2

External Capacity

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

7.4

Input Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
7.4.1

Wire Preparation and Insertion . . . . . . . . . 52

7.4.2

Standard Sensus Settings for Nomad Systems . . 52

7.5

Sensus Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
7.5.1

RS 232 Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7.5.2

Sleep mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

7.5.3

Display

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

7.6

CompactFlash

TM

Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

8.

COMMUNICATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

8.1

Direct Cable Link

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.2

CompactFlash Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

8.3

High Power Radio Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
8.3.1

High Power Radio Transmitter Specification

. . . 58

8.3.2

High Power Radio Modem Specification

. . . . . 59

8.3.3

High Power Radio General Specification . . . . . 59

8.3.4

High Power Radio LED Indicators

. . . . . . . . 59

8.3.5

High Power Radio Standard Settings

. . . . . . 59

8.4

Low Power Radio Link

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

8.4.1

Low Power Radio Transmitter Specification

. . . 60

8.4.2

Low Power Radio Receiver Specification . . . . . 61

8.5

GSM Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

9.

POWER SUPPLIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.1

Solar Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.2

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

9.3

Direct Landline Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

10.

ROUTINE CARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

1.1

General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

1.2

The Rain Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

11.

SERVICING & WARRANTY

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

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