Weather Station Maintenance

The weather station atop our house
gets a fresh battery change twice a
year and that was the project here
on Saturday, May 12, 2012. The
two-each size "AA" super lithium
batteries are installed inside the three
wireless solar transmitters (white devices
with mini antennas). The main unit,
which dislays the reading window for
inside monitoring of the weather, is seen
at lower left. The unit was brought up to
the roof to enable it to more closely search
for the wireless signal once the new batteries
had been installed. The white layered device
behind the tripod is a radiation shield which
covers the thermo sensor and provides for more
accurate temperature readings when the sun is
shining directly on it. This weather station was
manufactured by Oregon Scientific and is
                                                         model number WMR968.