Conrad 672286 Operating Instructions

PROFESSIONAL WEATHER STATION

(WIND AND AIR PRESSURE)

Operation Manual

About this manual

Thank you and congratulations on selecting this professional weather station! We are positive you will enjoy the benefits of accurate weather readings and the precise radio controlled time information that our instruments offer. This manual will guide you step-by-step through setting up your device. Use this manual to become familiar with your professional weather station, and save it for future reference.

Glossary of Common Terms

DCF/WWVB/MSF

The DCF, WWVB or MSF time signal is an AM modulated time-of-day signal broadcasted by the Federal Government of Germany, NIST from USA or National Physical Laboratory. The time base is generated from an atomic time generator which is accurate to 10 billions of one second.

LCD

“LCD” is an acronym for ”Liquid Crystal Display”. This is a common type of display screen used in televisions, computers, watches, and digital clocks.

BAROMETER & BAROMETRIC PRESSURE

A barometer is a device that measures the pressure of the air pushing on it—this measurement is called the barometric pressure. We don’t actually feel the barometric pressure because the air pressure is pushing equally in every direction.

RELATIVE AIR PRESSURE

Relative air pressure is the same as the barometric pressure. The calculation of relative air pressure is a combination of the absolute air pressure and the altitude.

ABSOLUTE AIR PRESSURE

Absolute air pressure is the actual air pressure on the barometer without regard to altitude.

INCHES OF MERCURY (inHg) Inches of Mercury is the common unit of measurement for air pressure in the United States.

HECTOPASCALS (hPa) Hectopascals are the common units of measurement for air pressure in the International System (SI) of measurement. The hectopascal holds the same value

Important Note:

The Professional weather station includes a base station (receiver), a transmitter unit, one wind direction sensor, one wind speed sensor, one rain gauge, USB cable and a PC software package on CD-ROM.

An added feature of the Weather Station is the readout of all measured and displayed time and weather data on a PC.

LCD display

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1. Time

2. Wind direction

3. Barometric Pressure

4. Barometric trend

5. Indoor Temperature

6. Outdoor Temperature

7. Memory

8. Radio Controlled Clock (RCC)

9. Date

10. Rainfall

11. Weather Forecast

12. Indoor Humidity

13. Outdoor Humidity

Set up Guide

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14．Outdoor reception signal

Note: The presence of the "Alarm-On icon" in the section means that the particular alarm has been enabled.

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Before placing and installing all components of the weather station at there final destination, please set up the weather station with all parts being nearby for testing the correct function.

Setting up the base station and transmitter

Insert two pieces of LR6 (AA size) batteries into the transmitter, the LED located in the middle front case of transmitter will be turned on for 4 seconds, then it will be off and start to work normally. The transmitter will make a data transmission and then start radio controlled time reception routine. If time signal can be detected correctly, the LED will start to flash 5 times, and then the LED will be on for 20s, indicating time signal has been found correctly. When time signal is bad and reception is not possible, the transmitter will terminate radio controlled time reception within one minute and resume normal mode. When there is a data transmission happened, the LED will be on for 20ms. During radio controlled time reception period, there is no transmission and normal transmission will only resume after time reception routine is complete. The longest time for radio controlled time reception is 5 minutes.

After inserting the batteries into the Weather Station, all LCD segments will be turned on for a few seconds, all possible display segments are turned on for checking.

After this, the weather station will make initial measurement and start to register the transmitter (the radio reception icon will be turned on). Do not press any key before outdoor sensor data received, otherwise the outdoor sensor learning mode will be terminated. When outdoor transmitter has been registered, the base station will automatically switch to the normal display mode from which all further settings can be performed by the user.

If no RCC signal is detected in the initial setup, the transmitter will try once every hour to get an RCC signal until a signal is received. Once the transmitter receives the RCC signal it will transmit the signal to the monitor. On the monitor the RCC icon will be displayed, if the monitor doesn’t receive the RCC signal or loses the signal the RCC icon will not be display.

If no outdoor weather data is displayed or the signal to the sensors is lost during setting up, mounting, changing of batteries to the sensor or plugging or unplugging cables, simply press and hold the DOWN/- key for 4 seconds and a short beep will sound to synchronize the base station to sensors. Without being synchronized, weather data will not be received.

NOTE: Wait two minutes before re-insert the batteries of transmitter for proper reset.

Note:

The best condition for reception is at night, between midnight and 6:00am – when there is less atmospheric interference.

Note:

Commonly the radio communication between receiver and transmitter in the open field can reach a distance of up to 330 feet providing that there are no interfering obstacles such as buildings, trees, vehicles, high voltage lines, etc. Radio interferences such as PC screens, radios or TV sets can, in bad cases, entirely cut off radio communication. Please take this into consideration when choosing standing or mounting locations.

Mounting the sensor

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Important Notes:

On the edge of wind direction sensor, there are four alphabet letter of “N”,”E”,”S”and “W” representing for the direction of North, East, South and West. Wind direction sensor has to be adjusted so that the directions on the sensor are matching with your real location. Permanent wind direction error will be introduced when the wind direction sensor is not positioned correctly during installation.

Wind speed sensor wire has to be inserted into the phone jacket on wind direction sensor.

Wind direction sensor wire has to be inserted into the phone jacket located on the thermo-hygro sensor with marking of “Wind” on top.

The rain sensor wire has to be inserted into the phone jacket located on the thermo-hygro sensor with marking of “Rain” on top.

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Positioning

a. Wind speed factor calibrated (default 1, range 0.75-1.25)

b. Indoor temperature calibrated

c. Indoor humidity calibrated

d. Outdoor temperature calibrated

e. Outdoor humidity calibrated

Once you have verified that all of the components of the weather station are working, they can be positioned in their permanent places. Before permanently mounting, make sure that all components work properly together at their chosen mounting or standing locations. If e.g. there appear to be problems with the 433 MHz/868 MHz radio transmission, they can mostly be overcome by moving the mounting locations.

Program Mode

The base station has six keys for easy operation: MENU key, UP/+ key, DOWN/- key, ENTER key, HISTORY key, ON/OFF key

Calibration mode

While in normal display, press and hold the ON/OFF key for 8s to enter the calibration mode, the “ADJ” indicator is shown on the display. Then press the ENTER key to enter the following calibration setting in sequence, the corresponding digits will flashing:

In the calibration mode, press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to increase or decrease the setting to match the calibrated or known source. In the calibration mode, press and hold the ON/OFF key for 3 seconds and the value will return to the uncalibrated value. Note: The dew point and wind chill calculation is based on the calibrated value.

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Manual Setting modes

 Time zone

 12/24h time display select (default 12 hours)

 DST ON/OFF (this function is only available for WWVB version, while for DCF version this

 Manual time setting (hours/minutes)

Note: Press ON/OFF key to set the DST ON/OFF. “DST OFF” indicates that the feature is off and the

internal real time clock will not change times automatically. “DST ON” indicates that the feature is on

and the internal real time clock will change times according to the DST time schedule automatically.

Some locations (Arizona and parts of Indiana) do not follow Daylight Saving Time, and should select

“DST OFF”.

 Select DD-MM or MM-DD format. (Default DD-MM format)

 Calendar setting (year/month/date)

 Time alarm setting. (Hours/minutes). Press the ON/OFF key to on/off the alarm. If alarm is

For basic settings, the following menu is started by press MENU key. The basic settings can now be performed in the following successive order:

Note: Keeping the UP/+ or DOWN/- key depressed when setting certain units in the manual setting mode will increase/decrease digits in greater steps.

The setting procedure can be exited at any time by either pressing the HISTORY key or waiting for the 30-second time-out to take effect.

Time

- Press the MENU key to select the TIME section, TIME section digits will start flashing. Enter LCD contrast setting mode (level 1-8, default level 5), press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to set the value.

- Press the ENTER key to select the following modes, press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to set the value. :

Note: At Europe, 0 for GMT+1 time zone, 1 for GMT+2 time zone, -1 for GMT time zone.

At America, -4 for Atlantic time zone, -5 for Eastern Time zone, -6 for Central Time Zone, -7 for Mountain Time zone, -8 for Pacific time zone, -9 for Alaska time zone, -10 for Hawaii time zone.

feature is not activated)

Date

- Press the MENU key twice to select the DATE section, DATE section digits will start flashing. Press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to shift the display of DD-MM-YY, DD-MM-WEEK and Time alarm display (Default DD-MM-YY format),

- Press the ENTER key to select the following modes, press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to select the format

or set the value:

enabled, an alarm symbol appears in the display indicating the alarm function has been

enabled. Note: When a set weather alarm condition has been triggered that particular alarm will sound for 120 seconds. The corresponding value, ‘HI AL” or “LO AL” and the alarm symbol are flashing until the weather condition doesn’t meet the user set level. Press any key to mute the alarm.

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Wind

 Select the wind speed unit between km/h, mph, m/s, knots, bft. (Default mph)

 The wind speed high alarm setting.

 The wind direction alarm setting.

 Reset the maximum wind speed value. When both the wind speed value and MAX icon are

Note: Press the ON/OFF key to on/off the alarm. If alarm is enabled, an alarm symbol appears in

the display indicating the alarm function has been enabled

2. The rain high alarm setting. Press the ON/OFF key to on/off the alarm. If alarm is enabled, an alarm

symbol appears in the display indicating the alarm function has been enabled

3. Reset the maximum rainfall value. When both the rain value and MAX icon are flashing, hold the

4. Clear the total rainfall. When both the total rain value and CLEAR word are flashing, hold the

- Press the MENU key the third time to select the WIND section, WIND section digits will start flashing. Press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to shift the display of average wind speed and Gust (Default average wind speed),

- Press ENTER key to select the following modes, then press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to select the

display or set the value:

flashing, hold the ENTER key for 3s, the maximum value will be reset to current reading.

Rain

- Press the MENU key the forth time to select the RAIN section, RAIN section digits will start flashing. Enter rain display mode (1h, 24h, week, month and total rain. Default 1h), press the UP/+ or DOWN/-

key to select the display

- Press ENTER key to enter the following modes, then press the UP/+ or DOWN/- key to select the display

or set the value:

1. Select rain fall unit between mm, inch. (Default mm)

ENTER key for 3s, the maximum rain value will be reset to current reading.

ENTER key for 3s, the total value will be reset to 0. 1h, 24h, week, month rain value will be reset

to 0 automatically.

Press

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