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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
Weird. Squirrels?
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Squirrels with side-cut shears. All of the cuts were clean and at a similar angle. It's almost like a prank because the equipment was left alone.
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Originally Posted by bgd73
With cut wires, you can rerun and maybe conduit? What do you use for weather station?
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The best part of the system is that they use phone cord and jacks, so putting new line together is pretty simple. The problem is that it all feeds into the temp unit and then out to the display wireless, so each component can't transmit by itself. Each part had a bunch of cord that had to be hidden under stairs to the back door. That's what was cut.
It's a
LaCrosse 1612 -- seemed to be a good value. Once I got it hooked up, the wireless feature was giving odd wind speeds of 80+ MPH, so I set up this temporary wired deal. It comes with software to log all the paramaters on a PC. The nicest stuff is made by Davis and runs over $1000 -- way out of my price range.
So now it sits in a pile in my closet.
With storm season nearly over, I'll focus on next year. I may mount the temp sensor in a hidden location to monitor winter temps. By Spring, I'll have it back out, but this time on the roof where you'd need to put in some serious effort to mess with stuff.
Talking with the neighbors, it was probably some kids. The Police stopped-by, but as we know, it's not worthy to solve. It just means ramped-up patrols. I'm not mad, just disappointed.
RH77