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false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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Today I created a rain cumulus 2000mm at 9am. That might be genereando this error?
this rain appeared as monthly but the strange thing is that today does not indicate rain!
This may be the problem, a data logger setup?, any failure of cumulus?
help!
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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Please zip up the diags folder and attach it, together with your dayfile.txt file.
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steve wrote:Please zip up the diags folder and attach it, together with your dayfile.txt file.
The problem is that the station is 150km from where I am now and I can not access remotely.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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lu3fbm_arg wrote:The problem is that the station is 150km from where I am now and I can not access remotely.
Then upload the files when you do have access.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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lu3fbm_arg wrote:
steve wrote:Please zip up the diags folder and attach it, together with your dayfile.txt file.
The problem is that the station is 150km from where I am now and I can not access remotely.
the site is www.meteolitoral.com.ar
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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Looking at your graphs, your station was generating complete garbage before 0900 today. My guess is this: that data came from the logger, and you have selected the wrong station type. If you have a WH1081, which doesn't have a solar sensor, then you have selected the station type which does have a solar sensor. This means that any data which Cumulus downloads from the logger will be wrong, because the logger entries are different sizes. That is just a guess, though.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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I use cumulus 1.9.2 and I have selected cumulus where it says fine offset WH1080. I have wh1081 no UV or solar-powered is the standard.
Another option I see in cumulus.


steve wrote:Looking at your graphs, your station was generating complete garbage before 0900 today. My guess is this: that data came from the logger, and you have selected the wrong station type. If you have a WH1081, which doesn't have a solar sensor, then you have selected the station type which does have a solar sensor. This means that any data which Cumulus downloads from the logger will be wrong, because the logger entries are different sizes. That is just a guess, though.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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It was just a guess as I have nothing else to go on. I'll need to see the diags files.

It looks like you restarted Cumulus at 0900? You didn't notice a problem at the time, and now you're 150 km away? If you're often 150 km away, it would be a good idea to set up remote access to the PC.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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Thanks Steve for your replies, this weekend I'll be able to get the files and I'll rise. It strikes me that the wrong data received on the console what happened.
I will analyze in depth to provide a solution to the problem. As for remote access I will set within 15 days when traveling to the village.
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steve wrote:It was just a guess as I have nothing else to go on. I'll need to see the diags files.

It looks like you restarted Cumulus at 0900? You didn't notice a problem at the time, and now you're 150 km away? If you're often 150 km away, it would be a good idea to set up remote access to the PC.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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Steve let setup labeled RESTARS IF DATA STOPS, and from what I see on my site the station is reset to the time 9AM frame 2000mm reading.
Can this be the problem?







lu3fbm_arg wrote:Thanks Steve for your replies, this weekend I'll be able to get the files and I'll rise. It strikes me that the wrong data received on the console what happened.
I will analyze in depth to provide a solution to the problem. As for remote access I will set within 15 days when traveling to the village.
Greetings.



steve wrote:It was just a guess as I have nothing else to go on. I'll need to see the diags files.

It looks like you restarted Cumulus at 0900? You didn't notice a problem at the time, and now you're 150 km away? If you're often 150 km away, it would be a good idea to set up remote access to the PC.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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If you didn't restart Cumulus yourself at 0900, that's probably why it restarted. There were definitely problems up to that point, looking at the data that was being read. But it's impossible for me to say anything for certain without seeing the diags files.
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Archivos adjuntos!!
steve wrote:It was just a guess as I have nothing else to go on. I'll need to see the diags files.

It looks like you restarted Cumulus at 0900? You didn't notice a problem at the time, and now you're 150 km away? If you're often 150 km away, it would be a good idea to set up remote access to the PC.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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It was really the diags files that I needed, but as it happens I can see what the problem is from the data files:

05/08/12,09:30,10,4,95,9,6,5,0,8,6,115,0,0,0,0,1018,0,2,1,27,1,43,7,2,10,2,10,4,0,0,0,0,00,0,00,9,4,182,0,0,90

You have your Windows list separator and decimal separator both set to a comma, which makes it impossible for Cumulus to read back the data files and make sense of them.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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as it should configure windows then?

steve wrote:It was really the diags files that I needed, but as it happens I can see what the problem is from the data files:

05/08/12,09:30,10,4,95,9,6,5,0,8,6,115,0,0,0,0,1018,0,2,1,27,1,43,7,2,10,2,10,4,0,0,0,0,00,0,00,9,4,182,0,0,90

You have your Windows list separator and decimal separator both set to a comma, which makes it impossible for Cumulus to read back the data files and make sense of them.
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Re: false monthly rainfall of 2000mm!

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Countries which use a comma for decimals normally use a semicolon for a list separator. You need to change your Windows settings.
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