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Keep abreast of weather shifts just outside the front door with this professional weather center from The Weather Channel by La Crosse Technology. Complete with wind and rain measurements, the weather center allows users to assess up-to-date outdoor conditions to plan appropriately. The weather center also records up to 200 sets of weather data, minimum and maximum temperatures and humidity, and barometric pressure over a 12-hour period.
The sleek weather center base mounts on a wall or stands alone. On its LCD screen, equipped with eight levels of contrast and a push-button LED backlight for nighttime illumination, the base displays the weather and time information. Users manually set the date and time, and can also engage the buzz alarm for morning wake-up. To assess outdoor conditions, a thermo-hygro sensor communicates with the base at a 915 MHz frequency from up to 330 feet. This sensor measures temperatures from –39.8 to +139 degrees F, and humidity levels from 1 to 99 percent. Based on the sensor’s barometric pressure readings, the base unit presents a 12-hour historical bar graph and an air pressure tendency arrow. A graphic icon depicts the forecast. In the event of storms, the weather center features a storm warning alert, and the user can create additional custom alarms. Connected by cables to the thermo-hygro sensor, a rain sensor records rainfall measurements and a wind sensor analyzes wind chill, speed, and direction. A mounting case comes with the thermo-hygro sensor. To ensure proper function, install the thermo-hygro sensor in a protected location out of direct sun or rain. The weather center requires the separate purchase of five AA batteries. Covered by a limited one-year warranty, the weather center base measures 4-3/4 inches wide by 1-1/5 inches deep by 6-9/10 inches tall.
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Track your outdoor weather. Professional Weather Center displays temperature, wind, rain, and pressure readings with a 12hour historical graph. Wireless Thermo-Hygro Sensor transmits temperature, wind and rain information with Instant Transmission (state-of-the-art wireless technology designed & developed by La Crosse Technology) to the base unit and has a transmission range of 330 ft. Customize it to your preferences from the wind speed settings: Mph, Km/H, M/S, or Beaufort scale, and rain total settings: inches or mm. Also, features a programmable Hi wind alarm. In addition, This Weather Center stores up to 200 historical sets of Weather Data recorded within 3 hour intervals and storm warning alarm to warn you of bad weather coming. Packed full of features: MIN/MAX values for Out Temp & Humidity & Wind plus programmable alarms, Barometric pressure and 3 Icon Weather Forecast and tendency arrows. Manual Set 12/24 Hour Time display with Calendar and alarms. Wireless Technology packed with convenience.
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56 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Triple Sensor Weather Station,
By 21st Century Hermit (Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: La Crosse Technology Weather Channel WS-1611TWC-IT Professional Weather Center (Kitchen)
Pros:
Price less than $100. Fewer batteries, 5 - AA's Battery only, no wall wart required Long Battery Life, ~2 Years Detailed, illustrated manual Altitude adjustment for the barometer Impressive wireless range * Rain gauge more useful than expected Cons: Mixed reviews No radio receiver for WWV's Atomic Clock Temp sensor not weather proof No inside temp reading No PC Connection *Painful Max/Min reset procedure Looking at the product picture, one sees The Weather Channel logo, yet if you go to their store, nothing approaching this product exists. My conclusion is that after six-months at the TWC, they wanted no part of the headaches and shipped their inventory back to Lacrosse for sale on Amazon. So this price disappears with that inventory. * I no longer believe the above, I've seen this exact model for sale at Wal-Mart. In researching the triple sensor (temp, wind, rain) market I was primarily interested in temp and wind. Since its always windy in the winter, now I'll know how windy. It rains so seldom that why bother measuring, besides it won't measure snow, and humidity is always so low it's at the fringe of dry sensor measurement. I'm not a weather hobbiest, so PC connection was unimportant, besides being impractical in my solar-electric home. I'll just do the same as the last 10-years, write down the daily min and max in the monthly wall calendar, how crude, pen and paper. I considered Oregon Scientific, better reviews, more features, but much more expensive and it needed 10 batteries and a wall wart. Also Zephyr and Davis, the first had no reviews or downloadable manual and the latter was out of my price range. I read many positive and negative reviews for the 1611/1612 and I downloaded several manuals. In the end, I decided on the "devil I knew", my $20 La Cross wireless thermometer, 9013, had been reliable for many years. I'll keep it around for its atomic clock. Like all La Crosse weather instruments, the top line of the display is the time and date, on a weather station? Then the date field is so tight, mine now reads 11209, unlike the time field there are no spaces or delimiters. The single most important reading, the outdoor temp, is buried in the fourth group, duh. Since you can get an atomic clock on $15 units, one has to wonder why its not included on the 1611? Having all that in mind, I was price driven, so the 1611 is it. A clever feature of the 1611 is one pair of AA's inside the temp sensor powers it and both the rain and wind sensors, all wired together. Now it gets strange, if all these sensors are outside and wirelessly connected to the base station, why is the temp sensor not weather proof? It has to be protected from rain and sun, Duh? So I made a "bird house" to protect the "outdoor" sensor from the weather. I have the sensors roughly 200-feet from the base, the signal has to pass through a 12" solid wood wall and the base is sitting on a table with a wireless b/g router and a wireless mouse, no problems. I'm impressed. I've attached two photos, may help to visualize setup. *Added three more pics. Edit (*)July 10, 2009 After the wind blew over my original mast and smashed the wind sensor into too many pieces to count, I bought a second used unit. I guyed the mast with four steel cables, see pic. I now have two working base stations and a few spare parts. I have two more complaints about the user interface: 1) Resetting the max/min readings. Press Max/Min to scroll through all the possible values > press Set, then press + for every value you wish to reset. Theirs no master reset. 2) The Beaufort wind speed scale is meaningless unless you live on the ocean and own a boat. I'd much prefer the MPH value be inside the wind rose. Edit: 2-Year Update, Feb 2011 Reliability and battery life (a least one year) have been excellent, even worked at -26F. The new battery install is no problem, I simply carry both base units outside, remove all batteries, insert the sender then the base batteries . . . done! All my previous comments about the display organization and resetting max/min values is still true, much room for improvement. Overall very satisfied features vs. price.
49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
home slave,
By HOME SLAVE (New Mexico) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: La Crosse Technology Weather Channel WS-1611TWC-IT Professional Weather Center (Kitchen)
Having purchased a LaCrosse WS-1611-IT assuming positive evaluations were accurate, I was let down with La Crosse product value. Within the first year the wind paddle fell off of the mounting. La Crosse replaced this. Later the wind speed, direction and chill factor failed to register. Contact by internet and telephone have resulted in no return communication as noted in their listed phone number answering message. Three months have passed and still no e-mail or return calls from product support as their call center phone states. DO NOT PURCHASE IS MY RECOMMENDATION
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not bad at all.. When it works,
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This review is from: La Crosse Technology Weather Channel WS-1611TWC-IT Professional Weather Center (Kitchen)
Product works as advertised but after a while the wind chill, speed and temp stop working and the batteries need to be pulled out of both the transmitter and receiver in order to fix the problem. Not a big deal but it does reset the history which is a nice to have. Overall I'm pretty happy with it but I wish I had something I didn't have to run out and reset every week.
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