Cumulus Support

Came down this morning to find the tendency section on my Maplin controller (Fine Offset type) flashing with rain indicated (and no it's not in program mode as no +/- buttons are displayed). I'm sure I've never noticed this happen before the display is normally static - can someone advise what this means and if i need to do anything to "reset" it. Info was downloaded to Cumulus OK

I've noticed mine flashing from time to time; I'd assumed it flashed for a while after it changes.

I must admit I'm questioning myself - it may well of done this before, but I can't recall seeing it happening

malc-c wrote:I must admit I'm questioning myself - it may well of done this before, but I can't recall seeing it happening

I have seen it doing that on mine and I think it means a Storm warning it is when the hpa drops very quickly in a hour or so.

I hope this Helps to explain things.

Weird - it's now stopped flashing !!!!!!!!!

M1DUL wrote:

malc-c wrote:I must admit I'm questioning myself - it may well of done this before, but I can't recall seeing it happening

I have seen it doing that on mine and I think it means a Storm warning it is when the hpa drops very quickly in a hour or so.

I hope this Helps to explain things.

Wow -

Looking at the outside pressure graph it has dropped from over 1006 to 997 in the past 24hrs, and now has slightly risen to 988 - that would explain it then - Thanks

malc-c wrote:Wow -

Looking at the outside pressure graph it has dropped from over 1006 to 997 in the past 24hrs, and now has slightly risen to 988 - that would explain it then - Thanks

You are very welcome, core it has dropped very quickly.

Page 9 of my manual

nking wrote:Page 9 of my manual

That's talking about the +/- buttons flashing when you're configuring the forecast.

steve wrote:

nking wrote:Page 9 of my manual

That's talking about the +/- buttons flashing when you're configuring the forecast.

I think you'll find it isn't.

steve wrote:

nking wrote:Page 9 of my manual

That's talking about the +/- buttons flashing when you're configuring the forecast.

As Steve said, that's for the config settings - this was just flashing the two clouds and the large down arrow. The + and - buttons were not displayed...

It must of been that fast drop in pressure that caused it as the moment the pressure started to rise the flashing stopped.

nking wrote:I think you'll find it isn't.

I think you'll find, if you read it, that it is:

"Touch weather forecast section and + and - button will flash" - etc.

Having tried it, I see that the forecast section does also flash, but that's not what the instructions say

Once the thresholds have been set the display flashes when the values have been exceeded. I accept the manual isn't very clear but you do have to ask yourself the purpose of amending the thresholds

nking wrote:Once the thresholds have been set the display flashes when the values have been exceeded. I accept the manual isn't very clear but you do have to ask yourself the purpose of amending the thresholds

It's been mentioned before but no-one seemed to know what the purpose was of that setting. Are those figures per hour, because that's not clear either?

steve wrote:It's been mentioned before but no-one seemed to know what the purpose was of that setting. Are those figures per hour, because that's not clear either?

That is a good question which I've asked myself, one would think it is 3 hr average but I'm afraid your guess is as good as mine. I haven't checked it myself, however, malc-c may be able to see from his Cumulus results if he knows the time it started flashing.