Buy Cheap Oregon Scientific WMR968
Product Description
Put all the weather information you need at your fingertips. This deluxe weather station features advanced touch-screen operation with large graphic icons – including temperature, humidity, rainfall rate, wind speed and direction. Just touch the screen to get exactly the information you desire! Other features include a brightly lit LCD screen, calendar, alarm clock, memory function that records and “time-stamps” weather data, and weather alarms that alert you when pre-set target conditions are reached. Also measures temperature and humidity indoors and displays barometric pressure history.
Features:
- Control console with touch screen
- Weather forecast with large graphic icons
- Barometric pressure in numerals with pressure history in bar chart format
- Indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity
- Rainfall measurements
- Wind speed and direction
- Time with 12 or 24-hour clock display options
- Month/date/day
Sensors include:
- Indoor thermo-hygrometer with barometer
- Long range, solar-powered outdoor thermo-hygrometer
- Long range, solar-powered self-emptying rain gauge
- Long range, solar-powered anemometer
- Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Approved. UL is the worldwide trusted source for product compliance
- 3 month manufacturer’s warranty
The weather station comes with four wireless remote sensors (three are solar-powered), each with a 327-foot range and AC adapter. Seven-channel compatibility lets you monitor temperature and humidi
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7845 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Brand: Oregon Scientific
- Model: WMR968
- Dimensions: 4.90″ h x 10.80″ w x 18.90″ l, 1.10 pounds
Features
- More than 20 different weather conditions displayed on touchscreen monitor
- Displays one indoor, one outdoor temperature/humidity
- Completely wireless: outdoor solar-powered sensors simple to install
- PC-link software/cable kit available separately
- Outdoor temperature/humidity sensor
Customer Reviews
Do your homework
The Oregon Scientific WMR968 is a very inexpensive but complex weather instrument. I have been researching home weather stations for over a year now, and just purchased the WMR968 from Amazon.com when the price dropped by half. At the current price it is worth the extra trouble to get it to do what it should do. At this price, you have to expect to do some extra fiddling to get it to perform. If you really want a weather station that is going to perform perfectly, time after time, right out of the box, keep looking. This isn’t the one for you. But, on the other hand, for those of you who like me have very little cash to spend on a home weather station, this is a good buy.
Only beware! As is noted in these reviews, and on many other consumer review web sites, the manual that comes in the box is trash! Do not use that manual to set up and tune your WMR968. Please, please, please, go to the Radio Shack website and download the manual for the Radio Shack Cable Free Weather Station with AccuWeather, and use that one, it is excellent! The Radio Shack weather station is identical in all respects to the one sold under the Oregon Scientific brand name, except that, for some reason, it has a real manual written by a real American, and it has all the information you need. Note, that the manual that comes with the Oregon Scientific weather station has 9 pages. The Radio Shack manual has 36 pages.
My advice: if you decide to take the risk and purchase the Oregon Scientific WMR968 from Amazon.com, like I did, read all the consumer reviews, even the nasty ones. You should know what might happen to you. Gather up as much information as you can. I have found several exellent tips on setting up and tuning the WMR968 on this and other web sites. Another suggestion: join and contribute to a weather station bulletin board, such as WeatherMatrix.net. Share your knowledge and experience with others. Finally, don’t be tempted to cut corners when setting up your weather station. The sensitive electronics are not tolerant of abuse. Do your best to make sure everything outdoors is weather-tight.
Your Personal Weather Station
The Oregon Scientific WMR968 is certainly the top of the line weather station next to Davis. Although it may seem that the display is only updating every 30 seconds or so, it probably is. Buying third party software for this station works well if you want a more up-to-date update (certain software can update every 5 seconds or so). One problem that I’m having with my weather station is the rain gauge. With 4 inches of snow, the rain gauge never budged. This kind of ticks me off, since precipitation totals are essential to me. Other than the rain gauge, there seems to be nothing wrong with the weather station. The barometer isn’t something that gets calculated on its own, you have to actually set that up to what the barometric pressure is at the closest NWS office to you; otherwise the pressure’s WAY off. Other information you can gather from this weather station is indoor/outdoor temperature/humidity, indoor pressure, wind speed, wind gust, rain totals, wind direction (plus min/max/avg for the past 24 hours). There is a setting for an alarm (however, I haven’t used this feature so I don’t know what alarms can be set).
If using a third party software, you cannot have batteries installed in the monitor, it must be plugged into a AC outlet. So, it is best that you also go out and get a good cheap Universal Power Supply (UPS) for your computer in which to hook up the monitor, tower and weather station if you have quick little power surges. You will also *need* a serial port cable for use in COM1 or COM2. The Oregon Scientific WMR968 does not come with a serial port cable, you will need to order one or pick one up with the purchase of your weather station.