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Rain rate not registering

Discussion and questions about Cumulus weather station software version 1. This section is the main place to get help with Cumulus 1 software developed by Steve Loft that ceased development in November 2014.
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Grahampp1972
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Weather Station: Aercus WS3083 Pro Wireless
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Rain rate not registering

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Hi all. I'm using an Aercus Instruments WS3083 station. The rain is registering ok and totals are building up, but cumulus doesn't seem to be registering a rain rate at all... It still shows a high rain rate of 0mm/hr for the day.

I've never had this problem before and am wondering if anyone knows a fix?

TIA, Graham.
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mcrossley
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Re: Rain rate not registering

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Hmm, I had a look in the code, going right back to what Steve released in 2018, and I cannot see where the rain rate is calculated for FineOffset stations!

I can see it gets calculated when reading the historic data, but unless I'm missing something obvious I cannot see anything for calculating the rain rate from the live data. :?
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Re: Rain rate not registering

Post by mcrossley »

Found it!
So the rain rate is calculated over a 5 minute time span. If your rain tips were longer than 5 minutes apart, then you would not register a rain rate.
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