VENTUS W154 Weather Station User Manual

W154 Weather Station

Product Information

The product is a weather station that measures and displays various weather parameters such as time, date, moon phase, weather forecast, barometric pressure, wind speed and direction, total rainfall, indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity. The device consists of a main unit and a sensor. The sensor is equipped with a wall mount hole, transmission indication LED, temperature and humidity sensor, C/F button, RESET button, and a wind sensor plug.
The main unit has an LCD screen displaying all the measured parameters and buttons for different functions such as alarm setting, mode selection, rain history, weather alerts, and reset.
The transmission range between the main unit and sensor can reach up to 70m in open areas.

Product Usage Instructions

1. Place the main unit on a horizontal surface.
2. Install the sensor on a pole or a plastic base in an open area away from trees or other obstructions. Use screws, washers, U-shape bolts, and belts for installation.
3. Turn on the device and wait for the sensor to transmit data to the main unit.
4. The LCD screen displays all the measured parameters. Use the MODE/SET button to select different modes such as time setting, alarm setting, rain history, weather alerts, etc.
5. The device provides weather forecast based on the barometric pressure trend. The trend pointer displayed on the LCD besides barometric pressure reading indicates the trend of the Barometric pressure. Rising trend indicates sunny weather, steady trend indicates slightly cloudy weather, and falling trend indicates cloudy or rainy weather.
6. The device also provides outdoor temperature alerts. Hold the OUT-TEMP ALERT button to enter outdoor temperature alert setting. Icon or beside Temperature’s digits flash. Press or button to adjust the setting value, press OUT-TEMP ALERT button to confirm the setting. The device alerts when the temperature exceeds the upper or lower limit set by the user. Press any button to stop the alert sound.

Weather Station Instruction

Features

Weather Forecast
Sunny, Slightly Cloudy, Cloudy, Rainy and Snow animation

Wind

• Wind Speed, Wind Chill
• Displays m/s, knots, km/h and mph user selectable
• Beaufort scale 1 ~ 12

Rain

• Today Rainfall, Total Rainfall & Since Time
• Past 30 days rainfall history checking
• Rain alert

Time

• Radio controlled time with Manual Time setting option
• 12/24 hour user selectable
• Daily Alarm function
• Moon Phase display

Barometric Pressure

• Absolute & Relative barometric pressure
• Measures mb/hPa, inHg, mmHg user selectable
• Pressure Trend

Humidity

• Indoor & Outdoor Humidity
  Measurable range: 20 ~ 99%

Temperature

• Indoor measurable range: -10 ~ 50°C [+32 ~ +122°F]
• Measures °C / °F user selectable
• Outdoor measurable range: -20 ~ 50°C [-4 ~+ 122°F]

Wireless Outdoor Sensor

• Low-battery indicator for Outdoor Thermo Sensor
• Wall Mount or Table Stand
• 868MHz RF transmitting frequency

Main Unit Appearance

Part A- LCD

• A1: Radio Controlled Icon
• A2: Time/Since time/Date/Alarm time
• A3: Moon Phase
• A4: Weather Forecast
• A5: Barometric Pressure
• A6: Barometric Pressure Trend
• A7: Beaufort scale
• A8: Wind Speed
• A9: Wind Direction
• A10: Wind Chill
• A11: Total Rainfall
• A12: Today Rainfall
• A13: Indoor Temperature
• A14: Indoor Humidity
• A15: Outdoor Temperature
• A16: Outdoor Humidity

Part B- Buttons

• B1: “▼/RAIN HISTORY” button

• B2: “MODE/SET” button

• B3: “▲/ / ” button

• B4: “SNOOZE/LIGHT” button
  B5: “RAIN SINCE/RAIN CLEAR” button

• B6: “WEATHER/ABS/REL” button

• B7: “RAIN ALERT” button

• B8: “OUT-TEMP ALERT” button

• B9: “RESET” button

Part C- Structure

• C1: Battery Compartment

Sensor

1. Wall Mount Hole
2. Transmission Indication LED 3: Temperature
3. Humidity
4. Getting Started:
5. ”C/F” button
6. ”RESET” button
7.  Wind Sensor Plug
8. Battery Compartment

Getting Started

Main Unit:

• Open main unit battery compartment cover [C1]
• Insert 2 x AA size batteries observing polarity [ “+” and “ –“ marks]
• Replace main unit battery compartment cover [C1]
• The main unit can be placed onto any flat surface

Outdoor Remote Sensor & Wind Sensor

• Batteries compartment (8) of thermo sensor is locating behind the back cover.
  Slide to open the battery door.

• Insert 2 x AA batteries observing polarity [ “+” and “–“ marks]

• Plug the cable into the remote sensor. The remote sensor should be securely mounted onto a horizontal surface.

Note: Transmissions between receiver and transmitter can reach up to 70m in open area. Open Area: there are no interfering obstacles such as buildings, trees, vehicles, high voltage lines, etc.

Wind Sensor & Rain Gauge
Accessories

Setup
The wind sensor should be positioned in an open area away from trees or other obstructions.

• Run the cable that is already fastened to the wind sensor through the extension pole, and run it through the plastic base
• Align the back of the plastic base to an existing pole or wall. Using the U-bolts, secure the plastic base to the pole by inserting the ends of the U-bolts into the holes on the plastic base and securing it with washers and bolts. Run the cable through the plastic base
• Plug the cable to the battery compartment of outdoor thermo & humidity sensor.
  Set up example as below:

Weather Forecast & Barometric Pressure

Operation

• After Batteries inserted, or holding “WEATHER” button (B6) for 3 seconds, weather icon flash on the LCD. Set the current weather by pressing “▲”or “▼ “button. Press “WEATHER” button to confirm the setting and enter the setting of relative pressure, press “▲”or “▼“ button to adjust the setting, and press “WEATHER” button to confirm the setting. The weather forecast may not be accurate if the current weather entered is not correct.
• The current weather status should be entered again if the altitude of the main unit is changed.
  (Barometric pressure is lower at higher altitude location. Therefore, altitude change will affect the weather forecast). The weather station will start the first forecast at 6 hours later after the current weather status is entered.

Weather Conditions

• There are totally 5 different weather status animations in the weather forecast.

“ is shown if the animation indicates rain, but outdoor temperature displays is below 0°C.

• Front Alert Icon “ ” display when outdoor temperature is between -2°C ~ +3 °C.
• If there is any inconsistency of weather forecast between Local Weather Station and this unit, the Local Weather Station’s forecast should prevail. We will not hold responsible for any trouble that may come up due to wrong forecasting from this unit.

Barometric Trend Pointer
The trend pointer displayed on the LCD besides barometric pressure reading indicates the trend of the Barometric pressure.

▲
Indicating the barometric pressure trend is rising

►
Indicating the barometric pressure trend is steady

▼
Indicating the barometric pressure trend is falling

Absolute / Relative Air Pressure

• Press the “ABS/REL” button (B6) to toggle between Absolute or Relative pressure display. “ABS” is shown for absolute pressure; “REL” is shown for relative pressure.
  Absolute pressure is the actual pressure measured by the main unit.

Thermometer

RF Transmission Procedure:

• The main unit automatically starts receiving transmission from outdoor thermo sensor’s signal after setting up.
• The outdoor sensor will automatically transmit signal (temperature, humidity, wind information and rain information) to the main unit after batteries inserted.
• If main unit failed to receive transmission from outdoor thermo sensor,
  “- – . –”display on the LCD, hold “ ” button (B3) to receive transmission manually.

Temperature & Humidity

1. If the temperature is out of the measurable range, LL.L (beyond the minimum temperature) or HH.H (beyond the maximum temperature) will be shown on the LCD.

2. Outdoor Temperature Alert function
   Press “OUT-TEMP ALERT” button (B8) to select to activate or deactivate outdoor temperature alert function.
   Active outdoor upper temperature alert, icon “  ” besides outdoor temperature digit would display.
   Active both outdoor upper& lower temperature alert, icon “    ” besides outdoor temperature digit would display.
   Active outdoor lower temperature alert, the icon “  ” besides outdoor temperature digit would display. Deactivate outdoor temperature alert, alert icon disappear.
   Hold “OUT-TEMP ALERT” button (B8) to enter outdoor temperature alert setting. Icon“ ” or “  ” beside Temperature’s digits flash. Press “ ▲ ” or “ ▼ “button to adjust the setting value,

3. press “OUT-TEMP ALERT” button (B8) to confirm the setting. Setting Sequence as follow: Upper limit of temperature, Lower limit of Temperature.
   When alerting, the corresponding icon “ ” or “  ” would flash on the LCD. Press any buttons to stop the alert sound, otherwise it will alert for around 2 minutes, then stop automatically.

4. Humidity
   If the humidity is lower than 20%, the LCD would display , and display 99% if the humidity is higher than 99%

Setting

Radio Controlled Clock:

• After batteries inserted and the weather station finishes receiving the outdoor sensor’s signal, it’ll automatically switch to the reception of the DCF atomic time.

Radio control icon ” ” flashes on the LCD.

• The clock automatically synchronized with the DCF radio signal every day at 3:00 a.m. to maintain accurate time keeping.
• The clock can be set to scan the radio signal manually by holding “▲” and “▼“buttons. Each reception takes several minutes. If the DCF signal reception fail, scanning stops (“ ” disappear from the LCD) .
• Stop scanning DCF radio signal by holding “▲” and “▼“buttons.
• “ DST ” would be shown on the LCD if it is in daylight saving time mode

Setting

• Hold “MODE/SET” button to enter setting mode.
• Press “▲”or “▼”button to adjust the setting and press “MODE/SET” button to confirm each setting.
• The setting sequence is shown as follow: 12/24 Hour, RCC ON/OFF, Time Zone, Hour, Minutes, Second, Year, Month, Day, Day of Week Language, Temperature Unit, Pressure Unit, Wind Speed Unit, Rainfall unit, Wind direction.
• 8 languages can be selected in Day-of-week, they are: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Denmark, Russian, and English.
• The languages and their selected abbreviations for each day of the week are shown in the following table.

Language| Sunday| Monday| Tuesday| Wednes- day| Thursday| Friday| Saturday
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---
German, GE| SO| MO| DI| MI| DO| FR| SA
English, EN| SU| MO| TU| WE| TH| FR| SA
Russian, RU| BC| ПН| BT| CP| ЧТ| ПТ| СБ
Denmark, DA| SO| MA| TI| ON| TO| FR| LO
Dutch, NE| ZO| MA| DI| WO| DO| VR| ZA
Italian, IT| DO| LU| MA| ME| GI| VE| SA
Spanish, ES| DO| LU| MA| MI| JU| VI| SA
French, FR| DI| LU| MA| ME| JE| VE| SA

• The Time zone is used for the countries where can receive the DCF time signal but the time zone is different from the German time.
• When the country time is faster than the German time for 1 hour, the zone should be set to +1. Then the clock will automatically set 1 hour faster from the signal time received.

Note:

1. The time setting mode will automatically exit in 15 seconds without any adjustment.

2. Wind direction: the current direction of outdoor wind direction pointer.
   If the post is not properly facing the North, you may use the “▲”or “▼”button to adjust the position of the post. If the post is facing the East, the pointer must be set to the east, the correct wind direction must now be entered.

3. RCC ON/OFF: If you are in the place cannot receive DCF signal, please choose “OFF”. When RCC function is off, there’s no setting of Time Zone.

Daily Alarm Function:

• Press “MODE” button to select to view:
  Time → Day of Week → Date → Alarm Time (AL Display on LCD)

When viewing alarm time, hold “MODE” button to enter alarm time setting. Press “▲”or “▼”button to adjust the alarm time, press “MODE” button to confirm the setting.

Press “ ” button (B3) to switch alarm ON or OFF. If it is on, alarm icon will be shown on the “ LCD.

Press “SNOOZE” button (B4) when alarm alerts. “ ” flashes on the LCD. The alarm snoozes for  around 5 minutes, then it alerts again. The snooze function can be enabled for maximum 7 times.
Press any button to stop snooze alarm. Otherwise, the alarm alerts for 2 minutes then stops automatically.

Wind
Plug the wind sensor into the remote sensor. Set up the wind direction & wind speed unit in setting modes.

Wind force indication in Beaufort

Note: When temperature over 10°C or wind speed lower than 4.8 kph, wind chill would display

Moon Phase Display

• A: New Moon
• B: Waxing Crescent
• C: First Quarter
• D: Waxing Gibbous
• E: Full Moon
•  F: Waning Gibbous
• G:Last Quarter
• H: Waning Crescent

Rain

Reception of outdoor transmitter
If main unit failed to receive transmission from outdoor rain sensor after the batteries inserted (“–.–”display on the LCD), hold “ ” button (B3) on the main unit to receive transmissions manually.

Rainfall

1. Today Rainfall
   Today rainfall:

2. Today’s accumulated total rainfall. Press “RAIN HISTROY” button (B1) to view past 30 days daily total rainfall. The display will return to today’s rainfall if there’s no button been pressed in 15 seconds.
   Icon “ ” flashes when there’s rainfall.
   If the rainfall is over 4.9mm in 10 minutes, icon“ ”flashes.

3. Total Rainfall
   Total Rainfall: Accumulated rainfall from start-up or reset.
   Press “RAIN SINCE” button (B5) to view the since time of total rainfall, “SINCE” icon display. Hold “RAIN SINCE” button to clear rainfall record.

4. Rain Alert

   • Press “RAIN ALERT” button (B7) to activate or deactivate rain alert function. When function is activated, the alert icon “ ” display.
   • Hold “RAIN ALERT” button (B7) to enter the alert value setting. Press “▲” or “▼“button to adjust the setting and press “RAIN ALERT button to confirm the setting.
   • When alarm alerts, icon f lashes, press any buttons to stop alerting, otherwise it would  sounds for 2 minutes and stop automatically.

Backlight

• Press “LIGHT” button (B4), back light states for around 5 seconds.

Low battery indication:

• The low battery icon “ ” will appear indicating that outdoor sensor is in low battery  status. The batteries should be replaced.

Precautions

• Use a pin to press the reset button if the Unit does not work properly.
• Avoid placing the clock near interference sources/metal frames such as computer or TV sets.
• The clock loses its time information when the battery is removed.
• Do not expose it to direct sunlight, heavy heat, cold, high humidity or wet areas
• The outdoor sensor must not be set up and installed under water. Set it up in away direct sunlight and Rain
• Never clean the device using abrasive or corrosive materials or products. Abrasive cleaning agents may scratch plastic parts and corrode electronic circuits
• If there is any inconsistency of weather forecast between Local Weather Station and this unit, the Local Weather Station’s forecast should prevail. The manufacturer will not take responsible for incorrect forecasting from this unit

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