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☆AcuRite Atlas® new unit review (unposted from last year)☆
I honestly thought I posted this ages ago. I was going to do a new one, but all things considered, maybe posting this and showing what my style was more like a year ago would be appropriate. I've ad(...) https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/acurite-atlas-new-unit-review-unposted-from-last-year/
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@tuareg Si, la compré hace muchos años. Es sencilla, sólo registra temperatura, presión, velocidad del viento, humedad.. quisiera ya hacer el upgrade a una más completa, pero quizás la incluya en mis regalos de navidad.
Y definitivamente será de otra marca, pues el soporte de #Acurite para México es horrible.
"How the heck do you know the weather before you're even awake?"
Almost every clock in the house has time and temperature, including one of my watches (and the one I'm wearing has a tile for it). I've associated temperature with clocks for over a decade after my car radio had temperature on it. After checking my analog watch for it for long enough, of course it was the first thing I added to my smart watch. The rest is courtesy of #AcuRite. XD
Went to check Weather Underground to update the height and somehow my station has a gold medal? I don't know if it's a new gold medal because I updated the height or if it's just been so reliable despite the connection losses until recently (which would mean my being anal about resetting it was factored in), but, like...
I know this is 100% vanity, but it feels good, okay? I have busted my butt so hard with this weather station and not every weather station gets one.
The new #AcuRiteAtlas is performing... as it actually should! No false lightning strikes!
So here's what was wrong with the old one. I did some reading and learned that older units had a defect where the fan power wire was too long and caused interference with the lightning detector. #AcuRite support actually denied this to me in our communication, but seeing as I got my original unit from a big sale, I can only assume they were offloading old stock. Fine, whatever, but mine just happened to have so much interference from that and maybe other sources that it kept killing its own signal, disconnecting itself from the display and thus essentially the outside world. Everything I did managed to mitigate that but not fix it. Including probably making a very effective antenna from having to wrap the long wind unit USB cable quite so tightly because 30 feet of cable on 10 feet of pole doesn't work well. XD
New unit has no such defect. Everything works.
I'm having a laugh at my old school. I always thought my #AcuRiteAtlas was under-reporting various values because my old school has a weather station on it and I just assumed that they'd have some fancy super accurate model in combination with the local weather or whatever, but their current rainfall is over 7 times more than any other station in the area, which are all otherwise within reason of the forecast.
I have no idea whether everyone else is on #AcuRite or what, but all things considered, either everyone else is the same kind of wrong or the school got taken for a ride, placed it like crap, or let the students build something.
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☆AcuRite Atlas Wind Extension☆
This is really an excuse to review my final setup, including all the various parts, because I have updates.
The Wind Extension itself is, to be blunt, a bit of molded plastic, a screw knob, and a cable. No surprise there. For what it is, it's an elegant solution, and what it is is a clamp tha... https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/acurite-atlas-wind-extension/
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☆Solar Power Pack for AcuRite Iris® and AcuRite Atlas® Weather Stations☆
So that name is a mouthful. This battery backup solar panel, which I will henceforth refer to simply as the Solar Power Pack, is available at a discount if you act quickly, but chances are my average reader does not have an Atlas or Iris weather station, so we're just going to sit back and laugh about this thing... https://blog.bluestarcreations.net/blues-reviews/solar-power-pack-for-acurite-iris-and-acurite-atlas-weather-stations/
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As much as I like the idea of having a weather station, I really wish #AcuRite offered any connection lost notification than 2 hours.
2 hours could be an entire rainstorm.
And the fact it loses connection so often is frustrating. I've tried everything. I would not recommend the #Atlas. I would especially not recommend the lightning detector. It simply does not filter ambient devices.
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