Crikey...as you know I've said numerous times already, our old and new Davis stations (a Monitor III and a VP2 respectively) are working okay. I've not had any serious hardware issues with them. The "bad experience" you keep referring to is discovering I should not have bought them in the first place. They were simply too much money for what they are.Manukau heads observer wrote:one very important thing to note:
Davis has greatly improved the design of the ISS
as there was corision problems with the earlier designs
and so maybe you have one of the those gary
how old if your davis station?
I think until you have a later model davis station then you cant realy compare....my thoughts
I operate a mixture of breeds: Davis, Oregon Scientific, Vaisala, etc. They range in price from the $200 I paid for two OS WM-918s from DSE, back when they stopped selling them, to the tens of thousands for the research-level equipment. But here's the thing: there's very little difference in performance, features, or quality between the cheap stations and the uber-expensive Davis gear. A huge price difference, but little in quality or performance, considering they're not research-grade, no matter what Davis' advertising may claim.
If I could do it all over again, I'd either snap up a huge number of WM-918s cheap, or buy a few high end, Campbell Scientific/Vaisala-type stations. For the price of one Davis VP2 I could get ten WM-918s at $200 each, yet, for the vast majority of users, the WM-918 performs as well as the Davis, and is as robust and reliable. Neither the Davis or OS stations are a patch on the CS/Vaisala level equipment, but you'd expect that...so why not use the price of a single Davis VP2 to buy a bunch of less expensive stations which are going to perform just as well as a VP2?
The Davis is good quality consumer-grade equipment, but not worth the price demanded, especially when you can buy an AWS which is as good as a Davis for a hell of a lot less money. Since few people require the performance of a research grade AWS (such as a CS, etc), they'd be far better off buying an inexpensive (ie non-Davis) station instead. That's my opinion.
