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20-10-2017, 11:30
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Dead Weather Station
After 16 years of service, my Huger weather station bit the dust recently -- stopped responding to button presses.
I love this thing. It has a very well designed display which shows barograph, temperature inside and out, humidity in the cabin, moon phase, and time.
Although I can get all of this data from my normal network, this is always there at a glance, and it never sleeps, so the barograph is always full of data.
I like this thing, and I want to replace it. What would be the best choice, nowadays?
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I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
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Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
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20-10-2017, 12:08
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Re: Dead Weather Station
if they are touch pad keys try using a pin to pierce the outer membrane ,i have done this in the past with old equipment and generally once air can enter the key the keys start working again
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20-10-2017, 12:38
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Re: Dead Weather Station
There may be actual tiny switches inside there, DH, and they can be replaced. Recently reported here about a fellow CFer doing that for my antique Standard Horizon instruments, restoring them to full usefulness. I was really grateful to say the least.
In my case, the switches were behind rubber "bubbles" on the panel. If you listened and felt carefully, you could feel and hear a tiny click from the switch on the PCB. You might consider this sort of repair rather than replacement.
Jim
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20-10-2017, 13:10
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Re: Dead Weather Station
I love it, Dockhead's asking what's new out there? and two old time experienced cruisers both offer ways to fix the one you like. A certain irony here....
Tell us and show us pix of the new gadget you buy, Dockhead, and I hope you get some great feedback here about what's new. Good luck with the search.
Ann
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20-10-2017, 14:22
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Re: Dead Weather Station
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Originally Posted by JPA Cate
I love it, Dockhead's asking what's new out there? and two old time experienced cruisers both offer ways to fix the one you like. A certain irony here....
Tell us and show us pix of the new gadget you buy, Dockhead, and I hope you get some great feedback here about what's new. Good luck with the search.
Ann
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The answers, from old salts with a mentality very congenial to me, were useful and most welcome.
Hadn't thought of trying to fix it, but now I will
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"You sea! I resign myself to you also . . . . I guess what you mean,
I behold from the beach your crooked inviting fingers,
I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me;
We must have a turn together . . . . I undress . . . . hurry me out of sight of the land,
Cushion me soft . . . . rock me in billowy drowse,
Dash me with amorous wet . . . . I can repay you."
Walt Whitman
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20-10-2017, 16:13
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Senior Cruiser
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Re: Dead Weather Station
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Originally Posted by JPA Cate
I love it, Dockhead's asking what's new out there? and two old time experienced cruisers both offer ways to fix the one you like. A certain irony here....
Tell us and show us pix of the new gadget you buy, Dockhead, and I hope you get some great feedback here about what's new. Good luck with the search.
Ann
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we still remember the war
and who needs a younger model when you have a faithful,trust worthy,reliable,familiar unit glowing in the corner
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21-10-2017, 00:15
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Re: Dead Weather Station
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Originally Posted by atoll
we still remember the war
and who needs a younger model when you have a faithful,trust worthy,reliable,familiar unit glowing in the corner
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Atoll, thee could not have said it better! I love the gadgets that I know how to use and which do exactly what I expect: and tell me what I want to know! Well done, sir. .....except for me roast beef, which I prefer rare.
Cheers, oh pastie consumer.
Ann
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21-10-2017, 01:52
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Re: Dead Weather Station
Crikey Jim, ya better keep working OK; if ya break, it looks like ya going to be replaced with sumin new, not fixed...
Quote:
Originally Posted by JPA Cate
I love it, Dockhead's asking what's new out there? and two old time experienced cruisers both offer ways to fix the one you like. A certain irony here....
Tell us and show us pix of the new gadget you buy, Dockhead, and I hope you get some great feedback here about what's new. Good luck with the search.
Ann
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