15metre rainfall yesterday :( !!!

[agsteele]

I discovered a fault in the base unit for my W-8681-SOLAR station. In the end I replaced the base unit and it seems to be recording everything pretty accurately.

However, if I close Cumulus and return tomorrow then restart instead of getting sensible readings transferred from the base station I find that the rainfall records massive figure - often metres of rain.

As far as I can tell the base unit is receiving good data and the amount recorded in the unit is correct.

I tried removing Cumulus and all its data from the PC. Then I installed cleanly but it hasn't made any difference.

If I shut Cumulus down and turn off the PC then I anticipate another 15m of rainfall overnight.

Anyone have any ideas of how to fix this?

Andrew

[steve]

If you zip up the diags folder and attach it, I'll take a look.

[agsteele]

Thanks Steve...

[steve]

You have your station type set to "Fine Offset" (i.e. without solar sensors) but your station does have solar sensors. The logger entries are longer for stations with solar sensors, so Cumulus misinterprets logger data if it's configured for the wrong station type.

[agsteele]

You have your station type set to "Fine Offset" (i.e. without solar sensors) but your station does have solar sensors. The logger entries are longer for stations with solar sensors, so Cumulus misinterprets logger data if it's configured for the wrong station type.

Hi Steve,

Thanks for this. I've changed the station type in Cumulus. Do I need to clean up the data or should it all come right now?

Andrew

[steve]

Cumulus will have discarded a lot of the garbage, but you will still probably have a lot of incorrect data recorded, where the figures happened to fall within reasonable limits.