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Article #3662Re: Weather instruments
From: Chris Johnson
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 21:31
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1989 21:31
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Try looking in back issues of Scientific American. I know that
sometime around 1972 thru 74 there was an Ametuer Scientist
article (back when they used to have lots of fun projects you
could build) on weather instruments that used a DC motor and
metal kitchen funnels for an anemometer. Direction was done
with some funky self-synchronous motors which are probably
impossible to find, but it shouldn't be too hard to do it with
a slotted disk and some LED/photo transistor pairs now that
those things exist. I'd look up the article, but all my Sci. Am.
got destroyed in a fire :-(
-cj
cj@hpsad.hp.com
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