Wind Sensor with Solar Transmitter problems

[Grinder]

I have an old WGR968 Wireless Weather Station Wind Sensor with Solar Transmitter that has been running for . . 5 years?   but since the last big storm has stopped transmitting.

The sensor is still blinking but  for some reason I ain't getting it.  So I don't want to replace the sensor if it's still working. 

Any ideas how I should fix this problem?

Of course Oregon Scientific is out of stock (big surprise there) of WGR968 Wireless Weather Station Wind Sensor with Solar Transmitter even though they are on sale LOL

 

[Grinder]

Wow - no one has a clue what I should do!  Never happened before?  Transmitter still blinks but Station get's nothing, or  the other side and buy an entire wind sensor.

[Aardvark]

can you power it down and see if that helps on repowering... I am going to guess that it is fried via the storm.. but it could be something very simple as a wire came lose

[mackbig]

Assuming you have tried all the forced searches, battery outs and ins etc, plus moving the base closer to sensor for acquisition........

Is it flashing every x minutes consistently, or flashing randomly.  A few years ago I accidentally and unknowingly nicked by cable between my rain gauge and solar panel (actually my wife did it with gas powered whipper snipper)   The light was still on occasionally but not communicating.   I inspected and figured it out.   I spliced and put it back together, and all was well.   So maybe something in the storm loosened a connection (as Aardvark mentioned), something like what I mentioned (falling branch?), or you got EMP'd and you are fubar'd.

Andrew

[Grinder]

It blinks at a normal rate - I'm wondering if it's the cable - it's been on the roof for a while now and some of the connections are getting a little loose - Can I just buy the cable?  or is it pretty solid in sensor.  It's a deal getting up on that roof - not something I LOVE doing!  (steep).

My GUT feeling is that since the sensor is blinking regularly it's the other hardware. 

[mackbig]

The wire quality inside the cable is junk (surprise suprise).  You almost dont need wire cutters, your finger nails will do.   Unless you are good with microscopic soldering I think you are SOL inside the xmitter and sensor.  But you could splice just outside of each in the hopes that the issue is somewhere in the middle of the run.

As for blinking, if the senor is totally fubar'd, the xmitter wont blink.  The "brains" are inside the sensor, the xmitter is pretty much just a battery, solar panel, and antenna.  But really it could be anything.

Andrew

It blinks at a normal rate - I'm wondering if it's the cable - it's been on the roof for a while now and some of the connections are getting a little loose - Can I just buy the cable?  or is it pretty solid in sensor.  It's a deal getting up on that roof - not something I LOVE doing!  (steep).

My GUT feeling is that since the sensor is blinking regularly it's the other hardware.