Greetings all,
Looks like there is a spate of anemometer anomalies lately. A week or so ago my wireless Davis VP2 with wired anemometer (replaced 6 months ago due to failed reed switch) has frozen at 5°. The odd thing is that once every 20 or so readings it will move from there, but only to 9° or 360°, and only for a moment.
So far I have checked the splices which were clean, dry, and in excellent visual condition, checked and clean the connection in the ISS, and reset both the console and ISS.
It is weird to me because it is not a dead fault. My logical next step is to redo the splice, which is a minor pain in the ass. Short of that fixing it, I presume it's a hardware defect.
Is there anything I could be missing?
The wind vane is spinning freely. And I'm confident it's not the set screw (even though I have not checked it) due to the fact the it sits pretty stable at 5° with intermittent forays to 9° or 360°.