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New Transmitter > No Wind Direction (And Cumulus craziness)

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Spider-Vice
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New Transmitter > No Wind Direction (And Cumulus craziness)

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So I mounted the new transmitter I got from warranty because the old one whenever it rained, I lost sensor contact. Happens that the rain sensor connection was definitely with mold or something. Happens that the new one works correctly... Except for the fact that I have absolutely no wind direction :shock: I then tried the old one after diagnosing this and the console would no longer detect it but I guess it caught itself on a DCF signal detection loop and I then tried the new one, which worked. So... I've read about a resistor maybe faulty on the wind vane, maybe I could've burned it somehow with the batteries? (I put the old rechargeable batteries in with the solar cell. I measured both the batteries and the cell power which gave 1,5V and ~6V respectively).

Edit: I should add that I had my console memory erased with one record only, when I connected Cumulus it went to get 9ºC and 1035 hpa and 25 mm readings from somewhere I don't know :shock: Happened both times I disconnected and connected the station to the PC but its memory was empty! This didn't happen in EW.
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Re: New Transmitter > No Wind Direction (And Cumulus crazine

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Adding to this problem it seems like that now it won't last more than a couple updates, it updates constantly for a while, then loses signal out of nowhere. When I move the console a little it starts again, but a bit after it loses the signal again. It's been fine all day!

Cumulus craziness continues, making my data be screwed up.
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Re: New Transmitter > No Wind Direction (And Cumulus crazine

Post by Super-T »

Spider.
Are you talking about losing contact with your outside transmitter to console or console to PC? Or in fact PC to website?
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Re: New Transmitter > No Wind Direction (And Cumulus crazine

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Outside transmitter to console but after a reset it seems fine now... I hope! Only confusion is the unreal data when the logger is empty, when I start up Cumulus if I reset the console for example :shock:
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