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Vaisala upgrades weather sensors

A Vaisala product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 16, 2008

Vaisala has introduced the latest versions of its ultrasonic wind sensor, the Windcap WMT52, and its weather transmitter, the WXT520.

Both instruments use ultrasonic technology for measuring horizontal wind speed and direction.

In addition, the WXT520 measures liquid precipitation, barometric pressure, temperature and relative humidity.

The ultrasonic Windcap sensor, in both the WMT52 and WXT520, ensures accurate readings from any horizontal wind direction avoiding blind angles and corrupted readings.

In the WXT520 the Vaisala Raincap sensor measures precipitation, providing data on accumulated rainfall, rain intensity and duration, all in real time.

Both the WXT520 and WMT52 have a housing and mounting kit that is water resistant with an IP66 classification.

The transmitters have new interface cards and they are ROHS compliant.

A number of optional features are also offered, such as heating, a bird-deterrent spike kit, a USB connection and a surge protector.

The wind and rain sensors can be equipped with heating to improve the availability of correct measurement data also in severe weather conditions.

The USB connection facilitates the connection to a PC as a service connector, or when the PC is used as a terminal device.

The WSP152 surge protector is designed to protect the host PC against surges that may be entering through the USB port.

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