Davis Instruments Wireless Vantage Pro2 with WeatherLink Console

Davi Weather Stations are the premier weather collection data units you can get. It’s simple to assemble. It took me about 60 minutes to read the instructions and assemble. Once you decide where to put it, it’s easy to mount to your pole. I used a 2.5” galvanized pipe and re-purposed my old DirecTV antenna mount that was still attached to my house after I removed the old dish itself. Worked like a charm. The unit comes with a built-in solar panel that keeps the battery charged. I did have a period of seven days of winter cloudy weather with no issue keeping the battery charged. The readings collected by the station are spot-on.

This is the third Davis Vantage Pro station we've had at this location. The previous one, a Vantage Pro 2 that replaced an original Vantage Pro was placed in service15 years ago. Still worked, however, the solder point for one of the battery terminals failed making the supply power intermittent. Rather than just resoldering that terminal, we decided to replace the system with the newer designed rain bucket and tipping gauge. The new tipping gauge is a different design and we are taking it on faith that Davis has engineered this single tip model to match the performance of traditional two bucket tip designs. (This change made our household climatologist nervous.) The new, redesigned display has some nice features including WiFi connectivity for sending data to the Davis Weather Link internet site and receiving data from air particle sensors, which we do not have (yet.) Happily the Weather Envoy and a collection of Pro 2 displays, in use for the past 15 years, connected seamlessly. The solar light sensor transferred easily to the new housing's base and worked corrected. it appears that the "brains" of the system are unchanged, but I would expect that the the current production model solar panel is more powerful than the one from 15 years ago. In short this is appears to be a good, iterative design improvement over the previous Vantage Pro 2.

Easy insulation and assembly. Has stayed on consistently and communicated well with Wi-Fi

Purchased to replace my 9 year old Vantage Pro 2 that was recently hit by lightning. Basically the same sturdy outside instruments but the new Weatherlink console is really nice! Easy to setup and so much more info than the previous model I had.

I have had great success with Davis weather stations in the past. This one, I had problems with the signal, and then the console went out and retained no memory of rainfall totals. I feel this is poor engineering and/or software programming. I am glad that the app retains the rainfall totals, but this does not feed back to the display unit in my home.