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Weather Station Hardware => Davis Instruments Weather Stations => Topic started by: LABob on January 25, 2018, 11:51:43 AM

Title: How to calibrate rain sensor without corrupting data?
Post by: LABob on January 25, 2018, 11:51:43 AM

How do you all avoid contaminating your weather data (CWOP, WU, etc.) while calibrating the rain gauge? Just take the whole station offline while calibrating?

Title: Re: How to calibrate rain sensor without corrupting data?
Post by: SLOweather on January 25, 2018, 01:02:07 PM

Disconnect the gauge at the ISS and use an external counter. You can hack one up out of a cheapo pedometer. Or, just sit there and count the tips. :)

Title: Re: How to calibrate rain sensor without corrupting data?
Post by: Mattk on January 25, 2018, 04:54:29 PM

And old WMII console works well for counting bucket tips

Title: Re: How to calibrate rain sensor without corrupting data?
Post by: CW2274 on January 25, 2018, 05:02:29 PM

Quote from: LABob on January 25, 2018, 11:51:43 AM

How do you all avoid contaminating your weather data (CWOP, WU, etc.) while calibrating the rain gauge? Just take the whole station offline while calibrating?

Yup. All I do is turn off the internet connection in WL for any ISS work... just be sure to clear the console before turning it back on. ;)