My long-term plan for providing electricity when I eventually reside on the land involves a combination of solar panels and wind turbine(s). I wanted an accurate measure of what the general wind situation was like at the location in order to determine if wind turbines were feasible and to be able to estimate how much power I would be able to extract from the wind. I decided to place some kind of wind speed data logger at the location to provide this data.

The primary issue was that ...