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No rainfall being recorded in Cumulus

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No rainfall being recorded in Cumulus

Post by Ian 2E1ICB »

Hi Using the Watson weather station here with good results, noticed lately my station isnt recording rain on the cumulus software anyone have any suggestions would appreciate it

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Rainfall tipper bucket stuck. Mine had a spiders web around it, but with amount of rain we have had lately they don't dare go in there now !! :D :D
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Re: No rainfall being recorded in Cumulus

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Is the console itself recording rain?
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cheers ill take a look when it stops raining lol
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steve wrote:Is the console itself recording rain?
yes it is so it cant be stuck although i will check this out soon
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If you zip up the diags folder and attach it, I'll take a look.
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Re: No rainfall being recorded in Cumulus

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I've just had a look at your graphs, and they all flat-lined just after 10:00 today; including the internal ones, so it's probably not just a loss of contact with the outdoor transmitter. Is Cumulus not flashing the error light?
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Post by Ian 2E1ICB »

Hi ive just been out and removed the cover on rain collector there was a spiders web i have moved it maunally and its recording now so will have to wait until some more rain falls ;) many thanks for the help appreciate it.

On another note i would like to put a weather banner in my signature on the web page how do i do this, does it use the info from my weather station, sorry im not up on all the jargon

thanks

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On another note i would like to put a weather banner in my signature on the web page how do i do this, does it use the info from my weather station
http://cumulus.tnetweather.com/projects

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