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dpmiller

Seen this twice in a year, on mine. On neither occasion was the solar pod connected. Both were 100mph+, when the average speed was under 30...

dpmiller

this assumes that the crystal clocks in both sections do not drift appreciably. Remember that one of FOs first "fixes" was to solder down the casing of the crystal in the solar pod. If (say) the crystal in the pod changes by 0.001% due to temperature (or humidity on the pcb, or whatever) t...

dpmiller

Superb service from FO, new sensor arrived today. Before installing it, I added small squares of yellow insulating tape over the housing above both Lux and UV sensors to calm their response a bit. Let's see how we get on now...

dpmiller

I'd held off contacting FO until I was sure the updated sensor seemed good, and so only emailed them a week or two ago. A first email to the sales2@ address wasn't replied, but on resending to sales@ got a rapid response, apologising that our previous name, Laurence, had left. The responder tho was ...

dpmiller

thanks, Steve!

dpmiller

On downloading this morning (I tend to download and observe the past day, as often as possible) and scanning through the graphs I noticed an odd wind spike yesterday afternoon. Wind steady @ 25mph or so, direction stable too. Then... One record @ 110mph. Most Odd. No temperature, RH, or direction an...

dpmiller

had the solar portion locked up at all during that time?

dpmiller

might be worth putting a voltmeter on the 5v rail of the PC before condemning the console, then.

dpmiller

console batteries good, contacts clean?

dpmiller

how have you the transmitter orientated?

dpmiller

Hi again, I have had a week of no lockups of the solar module since I covered the UV sensor which is great because when the solar panel locked up in the past I did start to get transmisson problems which became gradually worse. The range and sensitivity to receiver position became gradually worse t...

dpmiller

Hello to you all, Newbie here and I'm having problems with the Solar unit in my 3080 unit as well. However, I might have just stumbled across the real problem with these units. When the batteries in the transmitter are over 3v the solar unit fails to operate and would also answer the question of wh...

dpmiller

just spent some time scanning through my data. Don't know if this info is of any use, but even tho my lux&uv have been dead since October or so (-- displayed) I see a couple of random occasions when Cumulus has logged the UV jump to 16 for a couple of hours and back down. Nice chap at FO would b...

dpmiller

I drilled a tiny hole in the top of the vane above the OE magnet; then pressed it down towards the sensors using a narrow probe in the hole. Having it *just* clear of the stator does improve the response.

dpmiller

Colin, would you disclose your contact in FO? (PM fine of you don't want it public). My solar data went from flakey to non-existent sometime in the Autumn, and I'm starting to think battery lifetime is dropping off too...
Soldering the can of the crystal made no difference either.

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