W8681 comms failure

[geowarm]

Three times now over a period of a month my W-8681 has hung up, ie no comunications with Cumulus over USB port.
- If I stop Cumulus & run Easyweather it complains it can't communicate
- Resetting the laptop & restarting Easyweather doesn't help
- Laptop has battery backup so unlikely to be mains glitch.
- No pattern to times of hang-ups
- Only way out each time is removing/reinserting the batteries on the station, a real pain.

Anyone got any ideas on this one? Cumulus and the Station are both set to a 10 minute log.
www.mecol.co.uk/weather.
Cumulus V1.9.2-1009.

thanks
geo

[nigelran3]

Hi Geo Have same station and was having same problem cured it with new good quality batteries
I use duracell Lithiums and it seemed to cure the problem completly hope this helps
nigel R

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nigelran3/index.htm

[geowarm]

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.
geo