Weather Station Barometer 8" Beech

Posted by Old McFrugal on Oct 19th 2016

Nice looking unit but I'm a little disappointed in the lack of accuracy. The back side touches the wall which causes the mechanism to move the needle a lot, there needs to be a space between it and the wall. I stuck a couple of small rubber pieces with sticky adhesive to the back of the frame to space it a few millimeters away from the wall and things improved substantially. But when adjusting it to the prevailing pressure the slightest movement of the screw tends to move the needle a large amount one way or the other so it is difficult to tell if it is set correclty or not. I've now had it set fairly well for a couple of months and it seems to track the official barometric pressure pretty closely, but it requires many taps on the glass to bring it to the new reading after the pressure changes. So I can only give it 3 stars.