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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.

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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].

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  1. Unknown27 mars 2018 kl. 03:09

    Hej.
    Jag är i liknande situation där jag behöver en billig vindhastighetsmätare till mitt kandidatarbete. Jag tänkte försöka återskapa den som ni har byggt och undrar om det skulle vara möjligt att få den Arduinokod ni använde i det faktiska projektet?
    Då detta är en mindre del av arbetet skulle det ta för mycket tid att konstruera mätaren från grunden.

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