Why not pull out that very high quality bearing that keeps the platters spinning at high RPMs and build this simple anemometer with ... a PIC that calculates the wind speed from the revolution ...

To measure wind speed and direction, most people turn the traditional cup anemometer and wind vane. Another less-known method is to use an array of ultrasonic transducers, which doesn’t need any ...

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Debris and insect meshes help keep the instrument clean. Cup anemometer with separate wind vane - Uses three cups to measure wind speed, while a wind vane measures wind direction. The vane always ...

If you place your weather station in an alley, you could very well get a wind tunnel effect on the anemometer, resulting in erroneous wind data. Your weather station should have good "fetch", or ...

A midst a series of high wind gust a peak wind speed of 253 miles per hour (407 kilometers per hour) was accurately measured by an anemometer during Tropical Cyclone Olivia, making it the highest ...