wind indicator? will it work?
I just put up my cheap wind-sock , but have an idea for a different type. I haven't seen it before even researching different direction and speed indicators.
Remember those long plastic sticks on bicycles a long time ago? It was a hard flexible white plastic stick that would stay perfectly straight when calm.
I was thinking an appropriate sixe/weight ball object onto one of thise sticks might make a nice wind direction and speed indicator. If it was straight up (depending upon it's breaking threshold) it would indicate "calm" then the further it bent down would indicate an increase in wind speed. Of course it would bend in the direction of the wind.
Would this work ok? would need calibrated and sized, ect. for length , stiffness, weight, mass, ect. Maybe it would flop all over the place even in a constant breeze?