Here is a YouTube video on how to build your own shield.
Gary
– I moved these post to this thread as they are related to it, edited this post to take out irrelevant part - eric
As for innovation I’ve said before being here in Istanbul we have to improvise a lot . I rigged up a 10$ bathroom window fan aspirator out of curiosity mounted it below the Air unit a viola temps began to drop however don’t really need it just curiosity .
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What is the reason for doing this?
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I think he wants to test some kinda forced ventilated screen for the Air module. In his country summer temperatures can go very high (bit like Australia these days). Not sure a passive screen will be enough for standardised measurements.
Or am I completely wrong @Weather34 ?
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Totaly correct a passive screen will fail,miserably in this part of the world when we hit July August September I want to get the Air model out of the shaded area and optimize it for lightning and try to balance out the temperature. It’s a project for spring
Other problem with my only shaded area heat gets trappped there as it is a balcony with a low roof and we use it for regular breakfast and evening barbecues all the summer so a lot of heat gets generated there.
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Why do you think it will fail? I have experienced the summer in Sinop and our weather stations were in enclosed in Stevenson cages and were extremely accurate.
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None to sell for a sweet price ? Here the only one I could find = 450 Euro’s … 
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Yes a Stevenson will do the job perfectly but I’m not paying that and import taxes and customs bureaucracy paperwork I can sow my own aspirator for less than 20$ .
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You can build one. There are several easy to build examples. Here is one:
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I saw your video and others but these aren’t to good and you need to find the plates with a good ‘curve’ as to make air move correctly. Not so easy to find and here in France most bbq plates are in paper and not plastic anymore … Am really looking for a real wooden stevenson screen. Found plans but gosh the tools needed to make it … would need to buy quite some and also … lack of experience
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Try this link to see what shipping will cost to you.
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they don’t send overseas. And if you find a shop, you easily double the price. Thing ain’t anywhere in Europe.
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This seems to be the cheapest I can find.
Ambient Weather SRS100LX Temperature and Humidity Solar Radiation Shield https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003EB3GE4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kQ9uAb22SXS9X
Shipping to France would probably run another $50.00.
Maybe, when time allows, WeatherFlow could look at buying a few and offering them as an add-on.
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The one I mentioned at + 450€, expensive but in accordance with normalisation here in France.
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I remember those. My father had one at our house about 50 years ago. It had several thermometers in it. That’s greatly overkill for the Air
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Is this srs screen of decent quality ? I read it wobbles a lot when windy and the attaches break easily.
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@michael is using one so maybe he will comment with his experience.
I was able to mount mine in the open so I don’t need one.
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Yes, I have the SRS100LX.
The mount is pretty wobbly, but seems to hold mine well enough. We’ve had some 60+mph storms blow thru without damage to my shield at all. It would also be easy enough to fashion your own mount if needed.
Michael.
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FWIW, I took my wire cutters to the cheap Acu-Rite solar shield on Amazon:
(The Acu-Rite sensor it was intended to house is under the shield in the first picture for size comparison.)
The shield made a difference, but was not nearly as efficient as my Acu-Rite’s aspirated fan or mounting the Air on the north wall of my detached garage in permanent shade…
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The Air looks like its touching the fins of the shield.
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