I think the ProWeatherStation one has the high up stuff hard-wired to a transmitter box that's at the base of the tower. And that transmitter box communicates with the remote console. The remote console has to be hooked to a computer with USB to download the data out of it.
I don't now how long the wires are to the transmitter unit, and I doubt they're long enough to reach to the base of my 74 foot tower that I'd put it on. But the sensors would be mounted on the tower mast at 65 feet, about 4 feet below the blade tips on the turbine. So if they reach 30 feet down the tower I can climb the tower to 35 feet to change the batteries if I had to, without lowering the tower. It says the batteries last two years in the transmitter.
I got an Oregon Scientific one right now, and that one has the batteries in each sensor. The wind speed sensor has never needed a set of batteries in it, and it's two years old. The temp sensor goes thru a set of batteries every week and it doesn't have a solar input thing on it. I'm not too happy about that, and I use rechargeable batteries in it. The rain gauge for it also has the original lithium batteries in it and that functions fine yet after two years. I don't know what the problem is with the thermo-hygro sensor, but it eats batteries.
My anemometer for my APRS is hard wired too, and that's on my 100 foot tower on a mast that's mounted at 90 feet. I pull the SD card out of that and download the CSV off it once a month or so. But for the other stuff - rain amount, temperature, and another wind speed reading at the lower height that I can look at every day, I still need a good home weather station. The Oregon Scientific one I got does not log data - it only shows the min and max for temp and wind speed, and it only stores rain data for the last 24 hours. And it has no desktop software for it.
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Chris