Just created an account to add some clarity to this. Yes I know no one has posted to this in 120 days however I just got a RainWise gauge and had been trying to find some information on wiring it to my VP2 and this is the "primary" hit people will get who are trying to do this.
I have a VP2 and I've always felt the rain gauge was the weak link. Maybe you like the Davis tipper (or spoon) and are happy with it, I don't and am not. I had the tipper with the original cone, upgraded to the spoon with the new cone and liked that even less. Saw a lot of recommendations for the RainWise so I got one.
I dug out the original tipper from my VP2 for reference.
Looking at the plug with the contacts facing you and the wire coming out of the plug going towards you, the colors are (left to right) yellow, green, red, black.
At the tipper the yellow and green are soldered together to one side of the reed switch and the red is connected to the other side. Black is not used.
Doesn't matter what the colors of the wires are in your plug if you are hacking off the end of an old phone cord. If using a 4 conductor plug with the contacts up and facing you and the wire coming out of the plug coming towards you the two left most wires go to one wire from the RainWise, the wire immediately to their right to the other wire from the RainWise, the right most wire us unused.
I would expect that if you have a 6 conductor cable then the leftmost wire is unused, the two wires to it's right go to one of the RainWise wires, the wire immediately to their right goes to the other RainWise wire, and the two right most wires will be unused.
I hope that is clear enough that anyone who comes across this can modify the cable coming off their RainWise so it will plug into their Vantage ISS.
Back to lurking.
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
[ You are not allowed to view attachments ]