Send it in for refurbish if that is the way to go. You can also get the ISS unit from Scaled Instruments and replace it instead. I would go for the new stuff if it were me and definitely, quit farting around on this site testing this and that when the experts told you what was wrong with it.
Aardvark, some people like to test and find out what is going on with their equipment, and to try to fix it rather than just throw money at it. You obviously have plenty of money to toss around (you must be in public service), but not everyone does. Some people would also like to avoid the down time that is involved in sending the unit in or ordering new parts.
I see part of this forum to be to learn what may cause problems, so it may be of help to others who may run in to similar problems and who may be interested in trying to fix the problem if possible, or who want to try to avoid having the same problems, rather than just automatically throw money at it. Or are just plain curious about what is going on.
Why do you even bother reading these threads if it bothers you so much that people don't just automatically go out and buy new parts or send everything to Davis at the first sign of trouble like you do? I think people are smart enough to determine for themselves at what point they are wasting their time and when to send it in or buy new parts. If people choose not to listen to the "experts", by which I assume you mean yourself, that's their business. You did your job by telling them what's wrong, if they're too stupid to listen to you, maybe it would be best to move on.
By the way, I'm still running an original VP that's over 12 years old and working perfectly. But then, I guess I'm not as rich as you are, and my time isn't as precious as yours, so I can afford to waste it and spend time learning and taking care of my equipment.
I really don't have a lot of money to throw around or I would have long ago chucked this iMac and gone back to a PC . I replace what I can't fix. I tried the fix for my soil sensors and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I have never insulted anyone offering a solution that unless they are real good with repair of a circuit board (and there are some electrical engineers here that have the diagnostic equipment and skill to do just that.).
I am not a rude turd as you are being to me. I simply implied that if they had already contacted Davis and was told the board was failing, to send it in or replace it. I find that an option. I would have assumed by all the OTHER suggestions that they checked out the seal around the ISS where the solar panel hits the ISS, that the gasket was in place and that the cheap rubber plug where the wires feed in was tight. That someone else suggested cleaning out the Rj11 socket to be sure that no crud had accumulated such as contaminated dielectric gel, that no wires were frayed. That the tipping bucket wasn't off the mounting or full of debris that was causing a vibration that resulted in the high count. Another person suggested the reed switch going bad as well as to check for pinched or frayed wire. Still another said that after doing all that unplug it and see what happens.
AND THEY DID, it still counts. I think someone else said put the ISS on a different channel to see maybe it is a channel thing and something is trying to send data . We do have 8 possibilities. I think the person did all if not most and then decided to call Davis, to send it in and they could get all new parts for the refurbish price.
People are free to either accept my solution or to look further. I am a retired high school science teacher on a pension and social security. I haven't yet won the lottery. I am almost 70 years of age and have had a weather station site going since 1993. I drive a 2001 Jeep with an interesting sounding engine, a driver seat that makes funny sounds now, rust on the right rear quarter panel that seems to resist being sanded, primed and painted only to rust again. Being told that the rust is seeping through the solid metal by 4 body shops that want to do everything from doing what I am doing, cut out the offending part and welding in a new one, to removing the whole quarter panel and half the roof, I took the advice of one of them , save your money and when it gets real bad come and see us.
I didn't go back to the other 4 shops and cuss them out for bad advice. Similar to what you are doing without the words.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SUGGESTIONS , THEN SKIP OVER WHAT I WRITE. I AM NOT GOING AWAY. IF I CAN'T FIX IT, GEEZ I HOPE SOMEONE DOES.
How is it that my suggestions come across as rude to you, when your suggestion, that I've seen you use before, amounts to nothing more than "shut up and go away"?
So I'm supposedly cussing you out without the words, whatever that's supposed to mean. Whatever do you think you're doing? Who here is using the crude language? You think you're helping by basically telling everyone who is still trying to help that you consider their advice and suggestions to be useless and that they should stop posting and go away because the experts have already spoken?
Davis, and probably most other technical support units, seem to have a tendency to over recommend new parts when they may not be needed. I know from experience. Not that they're bad, but that it's difficult and time consuming to fix each problem over the phone or email. That's one reason boards like this can help. And how do you think you're helping by telling everyone that you consider the matter to be settled and to
and definitely, quit farting around on this site testing this and that when the experts told you what was wrong with it.
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You actually think that doesn't sound rude????
I've been on these boards a long time. I remember when you had the original VP with repeaters every so many feet, and one on each side of each wall, interior and exterior as I recall, and with the tip of console antenna appeared to be pointed toward the transmitter through a window (probably low-e) as if the signal shoots out the end like a shot gun. That, along with what sounds like your insistence that people spend little time troubleshooting and buy new equipment, is where I got the idea you have plenty of money to spend.
If you think I sound rude, that's too bad, but that is exactly how you sound to me.
Then your yelling: "IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE SUGGESTIONS , THEN SKIP OVER WHAT I WRITE," is the same advice I had for you, except I didn't lose my temper and yell at you. So if you don't like my advice, why don't you follow your own?
