| Brunton ADC Pro Atmospheric Data Center |  | Brand: Brunton
List Price: $249.00
Buy New: $105.28
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  5 reviews
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Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 5.6 x 1.3
MPN: F-ADC-PRO
Model: F-ADC-PRO
UPC: 080078002977
EAN: 0080078002977
ASIN: B000FKMUDU
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| Features:
| • | Portable atmospheric data center gathers and records all key weather conditions | | • | Displays relative humidity, heat index, dew point, barometric pressure, and wet bulb | | • | Measures relative air density, altitude, temperature, wind chill, and wind speed | | • | Offers 24-hour pressure and temperature trends; predicts weather over next 12 hours | | • | Storm, altimeter, and wind chill alarms; includes detachable lanyard; 2-year warranty |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Whether you're riding the rapids in a whitewater kayak or reading the barometric pressure trends when the fish are rising, the Brunton ADC Pro atmospheric data center gathers and records all the key weather conditions. The ADC Pro displays such information as relative humidity, heat index, dew point, barometric pressure, and wet bulb, so you'll always know the current conditions and what's around the corner. Let your partners believe you're predicting the rain with some sort of mind-bending, supernatural powers. Brunton will take care of the science. Humidity and heat index are just a couple of the ADC Pro's vast data capabilities. The unit also measures the relative air density, altitude, temperature, wind chill, and wind speed (in km/h, mph, ft/s, m/s, or knots), along with the barometric pressure and temperature trends over the past 24 hours. More importantly, it absorbs all the data and predicts the weather over the next 12 hours, so you'll know whether to turn back from a hike or trudge on. Users will also dig the ADC Pro's multiple alarms, including an alarm that sounds when storms approach, an altitude alarm (for when users ascend too quickly), and a wind chill alarm. The ADC Pro is valuable from a training perspective as well, with an integrated chronograph, race timer, and ski run counter. Additional features include a water flow meter, a real-time clock with date information, and manual and automatic data logging. The waterproof ADC Pro, which runs on a single 3-volt lithium battery, can even transmit its information to a PC via its IR interface for further analysis. As a final bonus, the unit carries a two-year warranty. What's in the Box?
ADC Pro, detachable lanyard, extra lithium battery, user's manual.
Product Description
The Brunton Atmospheric Data Center (ADC) Pro gives you a portable weather forecast anywhere, anytime! Take this pocket-size weather genius with you when you hunt, camp, hike or fish. You'll have all the current readings at your fingertips whenever you need them, so you can determine when the weather is changing for better or worse. The ADC-Pro gives you the current temperature ( degrees F, degrees C), past 24 hour temperature graph; current, maximum and average wind speed (mph, ft/s, m/s, km/h, knots, beaufort). It also includes alarms for windchill, windspeed, storms and altitude. There's much more: 12/24 hour clock with time, day and date; Barometer, altimeter, relative air density, heat index, dew point and more; Data log feature and infrared data transmission to PC; Waterproof and submersible for use in wet conditions; Includes detachable lanyard for convenient carrying; Uses a CR2032 3V lithium battery (included); 2-year limited warranty. Precise, detailed info for serious adventure... get one now! Please Note: This item is shipped directly from the factory. Please allow an extra 2-4 weeks for delivery. Sorry, no express shipping available. We are unable to ship factory direct items to Alaska, Hawaii, Canada, Puerto Rico or APO or FPO addresses. Brunton ADC-Pro
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| Customer Reviews:
 Love it August 17, 2009
T. Toburen (Kirkland, WA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It does everything I need it to do.
I use it to collect data during test periods, and while it's not highly accurate (i.e. you can't get it NIST certified), it does what I need it to do. I then use the USB/infrared port data connector to download the data from the device to my laptop.
I also monitor temperature and pressure while on air flights and in conference rooms. It helps when instead of saying "I'm cold" you can say "can we turn down the AC: it's 65F in here!"
It's great on hikes - monitor elevation gain as well as temperature and wind speeds. The built in compass is small, but it works. So should help if you get lost, too.
One downside - the temperature response is slow. You need to leave it in an area for at least 10 minutes to get a real temperature reading. But, you can watch the built in trends to see if you've leveled out yet, too, which is helpful.
Good product with some annoyances February 22, 2009
R. Tripathi (New York)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This model was released in 2003 and Amazon started giving it away for under $100 recently. For that price, it does everything you expect it to do. The menu system is simple but takes a bit getting used to. The contours are like a continuous mathematical function without surprises or sharp edges and the extra clip on lanyard is quite good too.
I use a Garmin 60CSx and compared its altimeter to Brunton ADC Pro's. My calibration was at a shipyard: set both devices to measure 1M above sea level, and stayed there to see how they report after some time.
The Garmin altimeter jumped as much at +/- 5 meters within 2 minutes while the ADC continued reporting 1M, and sometimes 2M for few seconds. Then I continued walking to a spot of different elevation, known to be 12M. The Garmin totally flipped out and the error difference increased to +8M, while ADC reported the altitude correctly (12-13M). The first unit I purchased was out of control when altitude was concerned, Amazon shipped a new one that seems very accurate.
(Update June 24, 2009). The second Brunton sent by Amazon was accurate but its Reset button died out when DST change occurred. After returning it again I finally got one that seems to work properly (nice people at Amazon). On the date/time issue there might be another minor bug undiscovered by me: the data logging seems to suggest that ADC is programmed with 2003's DST settings which might not be accurate anymore.
Brunton forgets to mention that its impeller is magnetic and one of its blades is painted red to identify magnetic north (for use as a compass). It seems that ADC measures wind speed by the current generated when the fan blades move i.e. their logic is: measure how fast the magnetic flux is changing and translate that into wind speed. The coil is most likely enclosed in the plastic tube that surrounds the impeller. I'm not sure if they're using rare earth magnets for this purpose, but upon losing their strength, the impeller can start reporting lower wind speeds.
Another gripe. If you happen to change the batteries or reset the ADC, you'll have to leave it in the same place for 12 hours so it can accurately understand our current altitude.
A small button (upper right corner of the controls) turns the backlight on: a timid green that disappears after 3 seconds.
 Pretty good, but a couple of annoyances December 2, 2008
Photographer (Oslo, Norway)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
The product does mainly what it claims, and it does it well. However, there are a few niggles. Firstly, it emits a beep every time it logs a data point, and there is no way to turn this off. Secondly, it NEEDS a Brunton IR-dongle to download logs - the IrDA standard is not supported. And there are no drivers for the IR-dongle on 64-bit Vista. Thirdly, the log file format isn't documented anywhere, so there is no good way to import the information into your own application for further processing. These nits aside, the product is good. I use mine a lot, and I'm very happy with it.
Not Bad September 6, 2008
Heddon 25 (Illinois)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this mainly for the barometer and anemomter features to have along for fishing and hunting trips. Both of these features work very well, as well as the hygrometer. The unit shows these in real time, tracks changes and records minimum and maximum events.
The only feature that doesn't work well is the altimeter. I don't know what theory or system is used but it isn't accurate, at least not on my unit. I can be sitting in the same place and watch the altitude go up and down without moving it. It's very seldom that it remains stable. I can understand some fluctuation +/- a couple of feet but it goes beyond that. Since the altimeter wasn't an important feature for me it's not a bother.
The unit seems to be made well and hopefully proves to be reasonably durable, which I think it will. It's a bit pricey but I got a better deal on Amazon than I found anywhere else. All in all it's not a bad little unit.
weather Instrument August 7, 2008
Vernon R. Sneed (Stephenville, TX, USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am very pleased with my purchase, I would recommend to anyone needing weather information. I use in my volunteer job as a weather spotter.
Vernon Sneed
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