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Kestrel anemometer7/30/2023 In earlier issues, notice was taken of the Kestrel 1000 (reviewed in the June, 1997 issue) and the Skywatch Elite (in the Jissue). There’s a $199 version in a blue case called a Bruton Sherpa that does time, wind, temperature, altitude and barometric pressure, with a 16-hour trend graph.) Also sold under the names Silva and Brunton, it’s made by Flytec AG, a Swiss company. The Minox sells for $109, from Leica Camera, Inc. The Minox has a CR2032 lithium battery good for up to four years or 100,000 one-minute measurements. The tiny impeller, mounted in a ball housing, swivels closed to protect it during storage. The time intervals used for average values are programmable. The temperature displays in Celsius or Fahrenheit, calculates a wind chill temperature and displays both. This new Minox gadget, a two-button (function and reset) instrument in a little waterproof case made of aluminum, reads the wind in knots, kilometers, mph, meters per second and Beaufort- both the current and peak average. (Remember the little German-made push-pull spy camera introduced a long time ago? It was one of the first successful miniaturization efforts in photography.) Most of these instruments, made possible by electronic chips and liquid crystal displays, have other functions, too. We’ve taken note on several occasions of the excellent handheld anemometers that reflect the mania for miniaturization.
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