{"id":3205,"date":"2014-05-07T19:19:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3205"},"modified":"2022-02-01T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:22:25","slug":"3205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/3205","title":{"rendered":"Do you have a wind direction sensor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-weather-system\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Weather System<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-WTHR<\/nobr>) has both wind speed and direction.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy DIY projects you can also modify the <a href=\"\/product\/rotary-motion-sensor\/\">Rotary Motion Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>RMV-BTD<\/nobr>) or <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-rotary-motion-sensor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Rotary Motion Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-RMS<\/nobr>). Cut some flat stock to create a weather vane and bolt it to the threaded bearing on the sensor. The threading is a standard U.S. thread 6-32 (3\/8&#8243; deep), so you can purchase an appropriate bolt at a hardware store.<\/p>\n<p>Another DIY option is to find a potentiometer that goes all the way around (360 degrees) and wire it a voltage divider so that the voltage varies with wind direction. A linear potentiometer would be better than a audio potentiometer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the has both wind speed and direction. If you enjoy DIY projects you can also modify the or . Cut some flat stock to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[839,52,2847],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-rmv","tag-rotary","tag-wind-direction"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}