Cumulus Support

Dear all

did anyone face a problem of wind gust reading? what is happening with my station
is : the wind is calm, but the gust appear on my console 95km/h the speed if ok
my ws2316 was working good from about 8months suddenly 2days ago
i reaslize this trouble.

thanks for help

Dear All

Ceach this out its interest way to repair fake wind reads

http://users.otenet.gr/~meteo/project_r ... -cat5.html

regards,

I did this a few years ago and it does work.

Only difference is I didnt cut the cable, I took it apart
and went to the circuit board.

Ron

Must be something in the water ..............

Mine has run for a few years after that mod now I get a 114mph gust at least once per day.
It is always 114 , at different times - could it have gone bad or just could it be a calc error when it reaches a certain level or something -

Thanks

Ron

Our station behave in a similar fashion, but using the Cumulus spike option the problem was solved.

As I told Ron in reply to the PM he sent me, for this strange maximum value, you can also use the LCMaxWind setting in cumulus.ini, as 114 mph is apparently above the maximum value for the station anyway.

There has been some recent solar flare activity, and geomagnetics are unstable - and LaCrosse anemometer cables are very susceptible to 'interference !

Hi Steve

Thanks for your input. The main problem is for some reason even when
the gust is in single digits it sometimes shows 114mph.
My next step is to put Ferrite Core at each end of the cable -
maybe that will help.

Ron

CheroKiwi wrote:The main problem is for some reason even when the gust is in single digits it sometimes shows 114mph.

Does the LCMaxWind setting not work? 114 mph = 50.1 m/s, so setting LCMaxWind to 50 or 49.9 should filter those out, if it works as intended.

steve wrote:

CheroKiwi wrote:The main problem is for some reason even when the gust is in single digits it sometimes shows 114mph.

Does the LCMaxWind setting not work? 114 mph = 50.1 m/s, so setting LCMaxWind to 50 or 49.9 should filter those out, if it works as intended.

Am doing one adjustment at a time.
Just set LCMaxWind so ill let you know how it goes.

Ron

I changed the LCMaxWind setting - so far so good.
I usually only make one change at a time or Ill never know
which worked and which didnt.

Hi Steve

114 stayed away one day. Its back and yes I used your spike info.

Ron

CheroKiwi wrote:114 stayed away one day. Its back and yes I used your spike info.

What value did you set LCMaxWind to in cumulus.ini? Did you put it in the [Station] section? Did you edit cumulus.ini with Cumulus stopped?

Hi Steve

In ini station section it is

Gust 34.4
Speed 33.5

My first change was 49.9

The original 49.9 change was done in calibration settins tab
these 34/33 are done in ini file with it all shut down.

But the setting which will take out the 114 mph readings is LCMaxWind; what have you set that to?