(note: I've emailed this same message to Davis' customer support at sales@davisnet.com, but have not yet heard back).
Hello fellow weather enthusiasts,
I recently purchased a new 6163 kit from Scientific Sales Inc. (scientificsales.com).
I assembled things according to the manual and did an in-the-house sensors test prior to attempting installation. All sensors worked fine, except my son commented that the anemometer seemed to be registering more slowly than he would expect (he was blowing on the anemometer to make it go very fast). I didn't think much of it at the time.
But today I installed the station on a pole. Everything works great, except I'm getting no reading from the wind vane or the anemometer. All other sensors are working just fine.
I took the station back down and checked the anemometer cable thoroughly; no nicks or indication of physical problems. I then did some basic testing. I plugged the anemometer into the rain sensor port and spun the anemometer; data registered as rain. But when I plugged the anemometer back into the wind port, I get nothing.
I also plugged other sensors into the wind port (such as the rain sensor, which is a simple momentary switch -- should work to masquerade as an anemometer). But I get nothing even when plugging any other sensor into the wind port.
My hypothesis, based on my limited testing, is that the wind sensor port appears to be either dead or having some sort of issue. The anemometer itself does not seem to be the problem, as I get output from it when plugging it into a different sensor port.
Can you give me suggestions for what I might try to fix this? I'm really looking forward to having my station working at full capacity.