Website for total rainfall

[Brisel]

it’s gospel re what has happened but no it can’t predict the weather ....... not even the met office seem able to do that bit !

They seem to be incapable of even opening their own office window to predict the weather there!

 

[Brisel]

the Davis has to be connected to WiFi yes ? So great for your garden etc but not much more, we don’t have WiFi at remote farms

any other remote stations I’ve come across need SIM cards and cost thousands making the Sencrop a bargain imo

i had a Davis in the past and couldn’t get anything like the 300m from WiFi claimed, by the time you stick a few walks in the way it was so close to the office building it was shadowed re rainfall and wind ! If anyone wants it foc they can come and get it, it’s stuffed in a cupboard somewhere in the office I think

I've got a couple of Davis stations to set up here shortly on sites that might be vineyards one day. One has a repeater to boost the signal as the site is a fair distance away from the building where the receiver will be. What would you say the effective range was?

How does the Sencrop transmit data & what is the range, since you're clearly the poster boy for them now?

 

[Bogweevil]

You are all wrong, rainfall is unimportant, it is evapotranspiration that counts. True a good automatic on-farm weather station will come with the Penman equation in its software and you can certainly justify the expense if you are doing significant irrigation, but people who know the value of brass will have an evaporation pan - cheap, brutish but good enough for practical folk. http://agriculture.vic.gov.au/agric...-an-evaporation-pan-for-irrigation-scheduling

 

[Clive]

Anglia Farmers are running a deal with Sencrop for their own network. I was quite surprised to see your smiling face giving a testimonial on the AF website...!

don‘t recall agreeing to that !

 

[Clive]

I've got a couple of Davis stations to set up here shortly on sites that might be vineyards one day. One has a repeater to boost the signal as the site is a fair distance away from the building where the receiver will be. What would you say the effective range was?

How does the Sencrop transmit data & what is the range, since you're clearly the poster boy for them now?

Our davis was about 50m from the office building though a wall that’s about as far as it would go

Sencrop uses a low data packet network that needs no sim etc Can’t remember the name of it but it’s a very tidy and cheap way of transmitting low volumes of data, coverage is good, most mobile mast have transmitters, there is no range limit, I have a station 30 miles from home with no internet at that site

 

[Pilatus]

Off topic ,Sencrop question.
At extra cost can one have a soil temp probe and soil surface temp probe added to the Sencrop weather station.

 

[redsloe]

it’s can, howver I could set the app to alert me the moment it starts rainIng

infomstion is power they say !

yesterday it was raining here but sent our sprayer to a farm 30 miles away where it wasn’t and he did 400 ac we would have assumed we couldn’t if we had just looked out the window

It's no good, I give up!
What have you found that's worth spraying?

 

[Clive]

It's no good, I give up!
What have you found that's worth spraying?

herbicide on linseed

........ we might put a “T2” of teb / strob on some wheat this week !!

 

[Clive]

Off topic ,Sencrop question.
At extra cost can one have a soil temp probe and soil surface temp probe added to the Sencrop weather station.

i think so, they certainly do a leaf wetness sensor

 

[Pilatus]

i think so, they certainly do a leaf wetness sensor

I have since contacted Sencrop and I was told , that the soil probe and soil surface temp probe are unavailable, but under development.
I am surprised the Sencrop weather stations run on batteries and not solar powered with batteries as back up.

 

[Clive]

I have since contacted Sencrop and I was told , that the soil probe and soil surface temp probe are unavailable, but under development.
I am surprised the Sencrop weather stations run on batteries and not solar powered with batteries as back up.

batteries last 3 years so why bother with the cost of a solar panel ?