Wiresess sendor reaction time?

[Hammerhead]

Per my post in this thread, I finally bought a Radio Shack (Oregon Scientific) weather station, but I have a serious problem with it.

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20147

The remote sensor, in the span of 16 hours or so, still is not displaying the correct RH in my humidor. I know this to be the case, becuase I have my Western Caliber III in there, too.

Have you guys noticed this same phenemenon? I understand that the wireless units tend to be a little slower, but a sensor that requires an entire day to react is useless. Either that, or I have a sensor that's off by about 10% RH which is also totally useless.

You guys have the same observation, or do I just have a bad sensor.

[illuminatus]

I have no useful input, but I just have to ask.. are you drunk this early in the morning while posting? Or have you just not had your coffee? (no offense intended man!)

[Hammerhead]

Originally Posted by illuminatus

I have no useful input, but I just have to ask.. are you drunk this early in the morning while posting? Or have you just not had your coffee? (no offense intended man!)

Would it have been better if I posted the question after lunch? Not sure I'm tracking you here... seemed a perfectly lucid question to me.

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Hammerhead

Per my post in this thread, I finally bought a Radio Shack (Oregon Scientific) weather station, but I have a serious problem with it.

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20147

The remote sensor, in the span of 16 hours or so, still is not displaying the correct RH in my humidor. I know this to be the case, becuase I have my Western Caliber III in there, too.

Have you guys noticed this same phenemenon? I understand that the wireless units tend to be a little slower, but a sensor that requires an entire day to react is useless. Either that, or I have a sensor that's off by about 10% RH which is also totally useless.

You guys have the same observation, or do I just have a bad sensor.

My two RS remotes are slow but not stupid - except for time I dropped one into a bowl of water. It stayed stupid for almost a week (in a warm, dry place) before it made sense again. "Stupid is as stupid does, " Mrs. Gump used to say.

Also - I had trouble w/ the RS remotes until they had a) hot batteries installed and, b) then I hit the reset buttons on base and senders, fwiw.

I'm not perfectly lucid, btw, so I can't be sure if your question was - or if my reply was either. What's the point?

[illuminatus]

Originally Posted by Hammerhead

Would it have been better if I posted the question after lunch? Not sure I'm tracking you here... seemed a perfectly lucid question to me.

Not the post, the post itself is quite lucid.. have you read your title lately?

[Hammerhead]

Yah. Typo. I know you might be hung over yourself, but the D is awfully close to the S. Now stop post whoring, and either go to class or find a girl.

[Mister Moo]

semmed lusid enuogh to me.

[illuminatus]

Originally Posted by Hammerhead

Yah. Typo. I know you might be hung over yourself, but the D is awfully close to the S. Now stop post whoring, and either go to class or find a girl.

... ouch.. cut me to the quick! (does that saying make any sense to anyone else? or am I just really tired?) I'm bout to take a nap till 1, then class from 1:30 till 3, then bed.. how screwed up is my sleep schedule!

And I'm going to UF on spring break.. it's decided... I've told all my friends, so now I can't back out!

Edit: Oh yeah.. the d is close to the s... but is the s close to the l? Last time I looked, they were on two different sides of the keyboard.. unless you got one of them crazy dvorak keyboards!

[Hammerhead]

Ok, the B is near to the M, so BITE ME.

Can we now get back to trying to get my question answered?

[RonC]

the remotes are very slow. takes mine a couple of days to settle in when going from a dry environment into my cabinets.

[chip]

My remote sensor is slow, it took about 24 hrs to read 74 and stabilized there when I salt tested it. It is not too bad in the coolidor, but like Mister Maduroo I noticed it had problems when the battery got low (after about 2 weeks with original battery, the replacement has been in about 2 months). It started reading very low, and the base station kept losing the signal. New battery and resets cured the problem. The trending arrow has never been accurate with mine, either.
I tend to watch the min/max readings to get a better idea of the stability.
It's a testament to Viper's beads that we start thinking hygrometer problems when the readings are off. Man those things are dead on.

[Hammerhead]

Ok, then I'm returning my unit. I think that a sensor that requires 24+++ hours to react to an environmental parameter that can change in the span of minutes is unacceptable.

These are supposed to be weather stations? So what do they do... tell you the weather from yesterday?

Even after a reset today, my unit is still reading only 58% and it's been there undisturbed since 9AM. In my book that's a POS and totally useless. By the time it reacts to low humidity, my cigars could be parchment paper.

Can anyone recommend a unit that has sensors that react faster?

[kvm]

Yes it did seem to take them a while to adjust to a major change and settle in.
However I have learned as I have other digitals in my humi as a "backup" that once they adjust you don't really need to worry about it. They provide a way to monitor without having to keep opening to check. You monitor for a continuous change. Today it reads 65 tomorrow it reads 64 a couple days later it reads 63 you know you need to add humidity.

[Hammerhead]

Yeah, but how the F can they sell these things as being outdoor monitors if it takes an entire day to go up 20% RH, when the RH in the real world can change that much in the matter of an hour or so?

The problem is that in the span of time it takes the sender to trend down even by a couple points by it's timescale, your humidor could be at 30%RH because someone knocked the lid off accidentally.

It also begs the question of why a 40 second polling interval to the base unit makes sense when the sensor isn't capable of detecting a change in the same interval of time?

I just have no confidence that they're reliable, and IMO, they're just not up to the task. Oh... and by the way, it's 13.5 hours, and the unit is still reading 58% in a 64% humidor. Useless.

[plexiprs]

Originally Posted by Hammerhead

Per my post in this thread, I finally bought a Radio Shack (Oregon Scientific) weather station, but I have a serious problem with it.

http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=20147

The remote sensor, in the span of 16 hours or so, still is not displaying the correct RH in my humidor. I know this to be the case, becuase I have my Western Caliber III in there, too.

Have you guys noticed this same phenemenon? I understand that the wireless units tend to be a little slower, but a sensor that requires an entire day to react is useless. Either that, or I have a sensor that's off by about 10% RH which is also totally useless.

You guys have the same observation, or do I just have a bad sensor.

Is the base receiver reset to the channels on the senders? Each sender needs to be on its own channel or CONFLICT arises.

I just bought two senders and a new upgraded base for upstairs. Sensors send like once every minute, indicated by a blinking LED. Open the humi, root around and the next blink the sensors reads the change.

You might need to return them to RS, it sounds wrong for any delay like that.