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Manual MWS 55 / MWS 88 / MWS 10 and Sensors 55
3.10 Data Format
The data format of the transmitted data looks like this:
Example of a datastring :
15:24:32, 15.09.03, TE24.62, FE43.75, TD31.32, DR940.14, WR78.91, WV80.79, WG1.20, WS4.11,
WD2.29, DB1013.32, TP11.47, WC24.62,
Each second MWS 55 transmits a data string starting with time and date. Separated by comma,
the single measured values with sensor identification come in the following order:
Temperature (TE), humidity (FE), internal temperature (TD), absolute pressure (DR), wind di-
rection (WR), prevailing wind direction (WV), wind speed (WG), wind peak (WS), average wind
(WD), barometric pressure (DB), dewpoint (TP), windchill (WC).
You may change the order of the sensors by changing the positions of the sensors in the string
(!Kxx). The commands to perform you'll find in the appendix.
By default, the data are transmitted with 9600BAUD, 8bit, no parity and one stop bit. (For eva-
luation with your own software, you can set several output modi - see appendix)
CAUTION: When changing the order of sensors there may special sensor properties to
be changed additionally! If you don't perform in the right way this may result in wrong
data output or wrong measurement!
The datastring ends with <CR><LF>, each datastring which is written in the internal logger in-
cludes an additional ASCII #31 in front of <CR><LF> for data-synchronisation with the software.
Each data string which is read from the logger has an ASCII #8 (TAB) in front of <CR><LF>.
All Reinhardt weather stations will send back each received command in brackets with CF and
LF before processing the command, i.e. <?U>, to verify that the command has been received.
On harddisk, a data file is created every month with a format which is similar to that of the
transmitted data. The data files receive the extension .MWS
Example : The file of March 2015 is named 03_2015.MWS.
In case of missing data (cause by power fail, etc.) the software writes data with measuring values
of -99999 to ensure integrity of the time axis. The software construes these values (-99999 and
-99997) as missing data and creates measurement gaps in the graphical displays.
