What is most irritating is I, and many other folks posting in this Forum, thought by purchasing Davis equipment we were buying the best available in the consumer market. Now I have second thoughts and I am on my third VP2, the latest being the 24hour FARS I bought from Ryan about 2 months ago. The latest appears to be better rainwise than the prior two I have owned but I haven’t had a huge downpour yet to see if the tipper does better than the prior two. However, the humidity and temperature readings have been inconsistent over the past 2 months—sometimes high other times low—when compared to what I believe are good comparables nearby. I informed Ryan that I won’t be asking for a replacement of the SHT31 yet, as I am not convinced I will be gaining anything. As I posted earlier, I thought my 2 year old VP2 was reading humidity high when compared to my new one but the next day—the results flipped and continue to be variable—when compared with my other VP2s on the same fence 10-50 feet apart. And as others have noted, I don’t recall ever seeing a 100% humidity reading recorded by my stations since I bought my first one in 2005.
In short, I wish Davis would address these issues or a decent competitor would arrive on the scene. Sorry Davis, but adding bird spikes, creating an aerocone, adding the Davis logo to the anenometer, replacing the RH sensor in both the ISS and console with the SHT31 that hasn’t lived up to expectations (poor packaging and bad caps?), dropping the USB Weatherlink software that frequently drops the connection with my console (not once by the new WiFiLogger), doesn’t make me feel better.