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[VAWT] Affordable wind measurements

The shop Clas Ohlsson in Sweden sells a spare anemometer for the   WH-1080 weather station  for a hobbyist friendly price around 15 euros. This anemometer can probably be found in other countries too. The WH-1080 spare anemometer Here   you can read about how to use this anemometer together with an Arduino or any other embedded system.  As we couldn't find any data on the characteristics of this sensor, we did our own calibration in a wind tunnel and the results are presented in the report above. This anemometer was used in a Bachelors Thesis project related to the devlopment of optimization of the Savonius Turbine, here tagged [VAWT].