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The Vaisala WAA151 Anemometer uses an optoelectronic sensor with three lightweight conical cups attached to a rotating chopper disc to measure wind speed through infrared light beam pulses. It has a low starting threshold below 0.5 m/s, excellent linearity up to 75 m/s, and integrated shaft heating to operate in cold climates. Technical specifications include an accuracy of ±0.17 m/s over its 0.4-60 m/s range when using its characteristic transfer function to compensate for starting inertia and overspeeding.

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The Vaisala WAA151 Anemometer uses an optoelectronic sensor with three lightweight conical cups attached to a rotating chopper disc to measure wind speed through infrared light beam pulses. It has a low starting threshold below 0.5 m/s, excellent linearity up to 75 m/s, and integrated shaft heating to operate in cold climates. Technical specifications include an accuracy of ±0.17 m/s over its 0.4-60 m/s range when using its characteristic transfer function to compensate for starting inertia and overspeeding.

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WAA151

Anemometer

• Optoelectronic sensor
• Low inertia and starting threshold
• Excellent linearity up to 75 m/s
• Shaft heating

Vaisala's WAA151 Anemometer has A heating element in the shaft tunnel keeps
established itself as the industry standard in the bearings above freezing level in cold
the wind sensor market over its history of climates. Nominally it provides 10 W of
several successful years. The WAA151 is a heating power.
fast-response, low-threshold anemometer. A thermostat switch in the sensor cross arm
It has three lightweight conical cups in the
cup wheel, providing excellent linearity WAC151 keeps heating on below +4 °C.
over the entire operating range, up to 75 The WAA151 complies with the standards
m/s. A wind-rotated chopper disc, attached of the following performance and
to the cup wheel's shaft, cuts an infrared exploratory tests:
light beam 14 times per revolution, • Wind tunnel tests per ASTM standard
generating a pulse output from a method D 5096-90 (for starting
phototransistor.
threshold, distance constant, transfer
The output pulse rate can be regarded function; see technical data)
directly proportional to wind speed (e.g.,
246 Hz = 24.6 m/s). For the best available • Exploratory vibration test per MIL-STD-
accuracy, however, the characteristic 167-1
transfer function should be used (see • Humidity test per MIL-STD-810E,
technical data), for compensating starting Method 507.3
inertia and slight overspeeding. • Salt fog test per MIL-STD-810E, Method
509.3
TECHNICAL DATA

Sensor/Transducer type Cup anemometer/Opto-chopper


Measuring range 0.4 ... 75 m/s
Starting threshold < 0.5 m/s1)
Distance constant 2.0 m
Transducer output For wind speeds 0 ... 75 m/s 0 ... 750 Hz square wave
Characteristic transfer function (Uf = wind speed; R = o/p pulse rate) Uf = 0.328 + 0.101 × R
Accuracy (within 0.4 ... 60 m/s) With characteristic transfer function ± 0.17 m/s2)
With transfer function Uf = 0.1 × R ± 0.5 m/s3)
Transducer output level With Iout < +5 mA High state > Uin –1.5 V
With Iout > –5 mA Low state < 2.0 V
Settling time after power turn-on < 30 µs
Operating power supply Uin = 9.5 ... 15.5 VDC, 20 mA typical
Heating power supply AC or DC 20 V, 500 mA nom.
Electrical connections MIL-C-26482 type plug 6-wire cable through cross arm
Operating temperature With shaft heating below +0 °C –50 ... +55 °C
Storage temperature –60 ... +70 °C
Material Housing AlMgSi
Cups PA, reinforced with carbon fibre; black
Dimensions and weight (Swept radius of cup wheel: 91 mm) 240 (h) × 90 (Ø) mm; 570 g

1) Measured with cup wheel in position least favoured by flow direction.


Optimum position gives approx. 0.35 m/s threshold.
2) Standard Deviation
3) Typical error distribution:

Range Error Range Error


0–3 m/s –0.4 m/s 31–37 m/s +0.1 m/s
3–10 m/s –0.3 m/s 37–44 m/s +0.2 m/s
10–17 m/s –0.2 m/s 44–51 m/s +0.3 m/s
17–24 m/s –0.1 m/s 51–58 m/s +0.4 m/s
24–31 m/s ±0.0 m/s 58–65 m/s +0.5 m/s

Vaisala Oyj
B010015en-A

P.O.Box 26
FIN-00421, Helsinki,
FINLAND
Phone: (+358 9) 894 91
Telefax: (+358 9) 894 9227

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