RE: Lacrosse WS-2300 weather station wiring

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kevin,

I'm just looking at getting one of these - did you get the wired sensors
working in the end?

Oh, and where did you buy it from?

Thanks,

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> kw1816
> Sent: 13 July 2006 09:56
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Lacrosse WS-2300 weather station wiring
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> I bought one of these weather stations some time ago and finally got
> round to having a play with it yesterday. It comes with a base
> station and outside temperature, Rainfall and wind sensors which are
> either wired or wireless.
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> I've had it running fine when connected with the supplied cables
> which are modem style 4 core RJ11 - RJ11. Great I thought - I'll
> just plug one end into the patch panel and the sensors into a handy
> cat 5 socket in the garage.  The plan was to just use normal RJ45
> link adaptors and plug the RJ11's into one side. My reasoning was
> that as long as I did the same each end then electrically it would
> be fine. The sensors are going to be too far away for the wireless
> RF signal to be reliable.
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> As you might have guessed it didn't work :-(    I can get it to work
> with a short CAT 5 patch lead using the same adaptors but not
> accross the structured wiring. I'm wondering if the CAT 5 twists are
> having an effect on the signal. Any ideas ??
>
> Thanks
> Kevin W.
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