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Can you use two F/O Consoles on one system ---
Posted: Fri 23 Nov 2012 8:20 pm
by robynfali
The definitive answer....NO
I tried several times, and in several different ways today, different switch on and synch procedures and nothing, the second console (old one) will not receive the signal from the new transmitter.
So there's your answer folks, I dont know if it means the same with any other system, but the maplin one it won't
SIMPLES
Re: Can you use two F/O Consoles on one system ---
Posted: Fri 23 Nov 2012 9:57 pm
by AllyCat
Hi,
Well IMHO strictly the answer to the title is "Yes", but with an exception of "Not in the case of two Maplin systems, where one was manufactured some time (years) ago and the other more recently". Discussed several times before on this forum, but most recently
here.
The FO protocol is very much "transmit and hope", so the transmitter has no idea (nor cares) whether one or ten Consoles are "listening". Several users have reported on this forum using two FO Consoles with the same transmitter, perhaps one "hanging on the wall" and the other just feeding data via USB to a PC.
Cheers, Alan.
Re: Can you use two F/O Consoles on one system ---
Posted: Wed 28 Nov 2012 10:56 pm
by robynfali
posting here also
I take it back!!!!!
If you have TWO maplin consoles that have been manufactured around the same time they might work
The station i bought last week, well the anemometer froze, so i had to take it back, but accidently packed the wrong display unit, leaving the new one at home and giving the old one back, so now i have two new display units, and during set up tonight, i tried it, inserting the batteries in the transmitter, then 1st display, then 2nd, all within 30 seconds.
Guess what.............identical indoor and outdoor info on both!
Re: Can you use two F/O Consoles on one system ---
Posted: Fri 30 Nov 2012 11:25 pm
by Tony500
I've been using three consoles in different rooms for the last couple of years. I bought the second and third systems mainly for spare sensors, thinking the plastic didnt look as if it would last too long (haven't needed them yet though after running the original set for three years). My oldest one is plugged into the PC as the logger, the others are just for display. Interesting to see the differences in pressure between them. They only drift from each other by .1 or .2 hpa per month, which doesn't seem too bad.