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Manual MWS 55 / MWS 88 / MWS 10 and Sensors 55
geändert am 04.12.2020 von DO
REINHARDT
System- und Messelectronic GmbH
Fax: 08196/7005 and 1414 email:
http://www.reinhardt-wetterstationen.de
1.3 Mounting
The weather station is mounted on a 1" water-pipe. This pipe must be fixed very well to stand
high wind speeds above 200 km/h when the weather station is mounted.
The weather station is to be fixed well onto the 1" pipe with the screws. The stability of the weather
station on the pipe must be established. Really check this after mounting the weather station!
Please mount the weather station on a place you easy can reach for mainte-
nance purposes for the station can not be guaranteed to be absolutely mainte-
nance free, i.e. the precipitaion sensor needs to be cleaned regularly (MWS10)!!!!
Take care that no water can splash onto the MWS 55 from below. Otherwise water may
soak into the MWS 55 and damage the weather station!!
You'll also find advice for mounting the weather station on your Weather-USB-Stick.
2 Setting Up the Weather Station
2.1 Installation of Hardware
MWS 55 Weather Station has been designed for measuring the most important weather para-
meters temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, wind di rection, wind speed and precipitaion
and global solar radiation (MWS 10).
All parameters can be displayed graphically, digitally or as an "multiple display".
There is also a statistics and a history function.
Mount the weather station on a 1 " pipe. Orient the North-marker to North and clamp MWS 55
in place with the two pre-mounted high quality steel screws. Take care that the pipe is mounted
as perpendicularly as possible, otherwise the windvane will not work properly and will preferably
rotate in one direction.
N.B.
The wind vanes of the MWS 55 weather station are very sensitive sensory equipment which can
easily be destroyed by mechanical influence.
Therefore do keep the packing of your weather station. Whenever you want to ship your weather
station later, this packing guarantees that the weather station is not damaged in transport !! Time
and again we have noticed that the units are damaged by wrong packing. This is very annoying
for the customer because he has to pay for all costs that may arise.
Please ask for a quotation of an original packing if it is no longer available to you
The weather station must be set up at a place which is exposed to wind, because otherwise wind
direction and wind speed cannot be measured correctly. (Please see "Directions of Deutscher
Wetterdienst").
It is also important, that no water is splattering onto the MWS 55 from below!
Connect the
as follows:
Connect the 9pole connector to a free serial interface of your PC or to an USB port with a suitable
COM to USB converter (with driver software which creates a virtual COM port).
Plug the power supply into a power outlet 100-240VAC / 50-60Hz.
Another option is PoE which allows supplying the MWS 55 via the network cable.
Power supply with PoE does not supply the the optional heating device. The heating device is
supplied with an extra cable and own power supply!