Application Note: Degrading of Building Materials by the Weather

Customer Requirement

An on-site weather station was required in a study of the effects of the weather on building materials. Long term monitoring is required to determine how rapidly and in what way degradation occurs.

Equipment

• DT600 data logger
• Sensors: Solar Radiation; Ultraviolet Radiation; Temperature; Humidity; Wind Speed & Direction; Rainfall
• Memory Card

dataTaker Solution

A weather station was assembled using a dataTaker DT600 data logger. The weather station collects data on solar radiation, ultraviolet radiation, surface temperatures over a gradient from blackbody to white-body surfaces, humidity, period of wetness, wind speed and direction, and rainfall. Readings from all of these sensors are continuously recorded on-site by the data logger, and stored in removable Memory Cards.

Data is transferred from the site simply by removing the Memory Cards, and carrying this to the office where the data is easily downloaded to PCs for analysis.