USER MANUAL Universal Shelter For all Davis weather consoles including Vantage Pro2™, Vantage Pro2 Plus™, Vantage Vue R , Envoy 8X ™, and Weather Envoy ™ Product Number 6618 R Davis Instruments, 3465 Diablo Avenue, Hayward, CA 94545-2778 U.S.A. • 510-732-9229 • www.davisnet.
Welcome to Universal Shelter (product no. 6618) The Universal Shelter allows you to shelter your Vantage Pro2 or Vantage Vue console, or your Weather Envoy or Envoy8X for remote or field installations. It has been carefully designed to allow for the mounting of all Davis weather station consoles and Envoys, and can be used with Solar Power Kits. The weather resistant housing can also be used to house batteries or other field equipment.
Install the console or Envoy in the shelter Note: You may mount the shelter before installing the console or Envoy. However, it may be easier to do this at a workbench rather than in the field. The shelter has been designed to fit Davis consoles. Inside the shelter, outlines of the Vantage Pro2 console, Vantage Vue console, and Envoy will indicate where they will be mounted in the shelter. 1. Before mounting a Vantage Vue console, remove the kickstand.
Routing Cables from the Shelter If you mount a cabled console or Envoy in the shelter, or are using the shelter with a Solar Power Kit, or otherwise need to route cables from inside the shelter, follow these steps: 1. Remove one of the rubber plugs from the floor of the shelter. 2. Feed the cable down through the hole. 3. Outside the shelter, wrap a split grommet around the cable. 4. Push the grommet securely into the hole in the floor of the Use oval-hole shelter. gromment with flat cables or power cable.
2. Remove the plug from one of the holes in the floor of the Universal Shelter. Wrap the split oval grommet around the console power cable and feed it up through the hole. Insert the grommet snugly into the hole. 3. Plug the power cable into the console. 4. You may want to mount the two shelters at this point, within cable-length (the console power cable that comes with the Heavy Duty Solar Power Kit is 10' [3 m] long) of each other. See Mounting the Universal Shelter (page 4).
1. While holding the shelter against the pole, place a U-bolt around the pole and through the two holes at the top of the shelter. 2. Place a backing plate, a washer, and a hex nut on each of the bolt ends. 3. Tighten the nuts using an adjustable wrench or 7/16'' wrench. 4. Place the second U-bolt around the pole and through the two holes at the bottom of the shelter. Put a backing plate, a washer, and a hex nut on each bolt end, and tighten the hex nuts.
Contacting Davis Technical Support For questions about installing or operating your Universal Shelter, please contact Davis Technical Support. We’ll be glad to help. Online www.davisnet.com See the Weather Support section for copies of user manuals, product specifications, application notes, software updates, and more. E-mail support@davisnet.com Telephone (510) 732-7814 Monday - Friday, 7:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time. Note: Please do not return your unit for repair without prior authorization.
