# Thoughts on Ambient Weather radiation shield for Air?

**URL:** <https://community.tempest.earth/t/thoughts-on-ambient-weather-radiation-shield-for-air/2794>\
**Category:** Tempest Owners\
**Tags:** air\
**Created:** [December 3, 2018, 9:52pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/thoughts-on-ambient-weather-radiation-shield-for-air/2794 "2018-12-03T21:52:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![bfjewett](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tempest.earth/bfjewett/32/7852_2.png) [@bfjewett](https://community.tempest.earth/u/bfjewett)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 4:56pm UTC](https://community.tempest.earth/t/thoughts-on-ambient-weather-radiation-shield-for-air/2794/6 "2018-12-10T16:56:58Z")

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Thanks for everyone’s replies. The contact between the shield and the air could be a problem for me because I’m planning mobile use, and the vibration could cause damage to the unit (outside and in), though a shield with “some space” could be worse in terms of periodic crashing around inside.

Most shields out there are designed for smaller sensor-only units, not the sort of hybrid we’re getting from WeatherFlow … so the shields are too small a diameter inside or not tall enough or both. (A future option to remove the base sensors from the Air enclosure would be nice … some day?). Unfortunately this rules out shields from R.M. Young, MeteoShield, COMET, etc.

I see there is already a page on this …  
[Photos of Air and Installation](https://community.tempest.earth/t/photos-of-air-and-installation/131/146)

And some other links -  
[http://www.digitalurban.org/2018/09/3d-printing-a-radiation-shield-for-the-weather-flow-air.html](http://www.digitalurban.org/2018/09/3d-printing-a-radiation-shield-for-the-weather-flow-air.html)  
[https://jimboombaweather.com/station/stevenson.html](https://jimboombaweather.com/station/stevenson.html)  
[http://users.otenet.gr/~meteo/project\_radiation-shield.html](http://users.otenet.gr/~meteo/project_radiation-shield.html)

Mine would be “well ventilated” so I might look for a sturdier version of something like this: [https://comunidad.leroymerlin.es/t5/Proyectos-Talleres/Garita-para-estación-meteorológica/idi-p/161088](https://comunidad.leroymerlin.es/t5/Proyectos-Talleres/Garita-para-estaci%C3%B3n-meteorol%C3%B3gica/idi-p/161088)

Brian

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