Construction / arrangement: the temp sensor is free in 2 m height under one roof terrace. The rain sensor is mounted in an open area on a 1.5 m high wooden stake and the wind sensor is set on a 25 mm aluminum tube (for a few bought at the hardware store) in about 7 meters above sea level in an open area. The base station adorns my desk, is operated with power supply and is permanently connected via USB to my PC.
Distances: the temp sensor about 10 m distance, the rain sensor ca 20 m distance and the wind sensor ca 25 m distance to the base station. The signal must be. By a ca 30 cm thick stone outer wall and an inner wall 15 cm thick No reception problems!
Installation: without any problems, everything was there and was perfect! Positive surprise ... even all the batteries were there. Allen "Installation whiners" Here I can only recommend the manual BEFORE reading (I have charged me as a .pdf file on the PC and thus always available).
(Changed 2x batteries) base station zero (except damp cloth ;-)), Temp Sensor, (changed 1x batteries and if necessary spiders and other creepy crawlies away) Rain sensor, (changed 3x batteries) Wind Sensor: Maintenance
Condition: as obvious quality plastic has been used, could our Mallorca sun -except a slight Vergrauung- far do no harm. So good UV resistance. The base station looks like new.
Software and data transmission: manual reading once a day with original software (Version 1.3 runs natively on both Windows 7/64 bit) and every 10 minutes with automated WsWin (free weather information software that I can recommend to everybody!)
The data is then uploaded WsWin every 2 hours automatically via FTP to my server and can be seen on my weather page.
So far, nearly 150,000 records were completely saved (21 MB).
Conclusion: Apart from a few semi-professional stations (which are also much more expensive) is the TFA Nexus the best choice that you can make for this hobby! This is complemented by the outstanding technical support the company Dorst man!
