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Offline Jim Shaffer

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Ambient WS-2902C "Rain Event" definition
« on: October 05, 2020, 05:34:15 PM »
Last night between about 2:30 and 3:30 I had 0.03 inches of rain at my location.  When I looked at my WS-2902C console this morning, set to Rain Event, it was showing 0.  I only found out that it had recorded the light rain overnight when I looked at the web dashboard later.  I thought that I remembered reading that "Rain Event" reset when 24 hours without rain had elapsed, so I was puzzled.  Tonight, I looked at the manual and I see that Rain Event "resets to zero if rainfall accumulation is less than 10mm (0.039 in) in a 24-hour period." By that definition, it should've been showing 0.03 inches when I looked at it less than 3 hours after the end of the rainfall.  Does it, perhaps, not start RECORDING a Rain Event til it exceeds 0.3 inches?  If so, this is not only not as documented, but very frustrating as I absolutely prefer to see storm totals rather than daily totals.

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Re: Ambient WS-2902C "Rain Event" definition
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2020, 05:51:53 PM »
Hi!

I just happened to have this page open:

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Some weather stations may calculate this slightly differently and the customer should reference the User Manual.

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Re: Ambient WS-2902C "Rain Event" definition
« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2020, 06:07:53 PM »
I was reading the printed user manual.  Evidently it's not correct.

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Re: Ambient WS-2902C "Rain Event" definition
« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2020, 06:29:20 PM »
Hi Jim,

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I looked at the manual
Sorry, I missed that while first reading.
Is there really 10mm in the manual? In the web it says 1mm which is 0.039 inch. Although I can imagine that this small amount of rain is not counted as an event. That's really not much. Maybe ambientweather can tell you something about that? He probably wrote the manual for it.

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Re: Ambient WS-2902C "Rain Event" definition
« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2020, 08:45:16 PM »
Yes, it really does say 10mm, ha ha.  I'm tired and I hadn't even realized that they meant to say 1mm.

 

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