Thanks for the info. Mine intermittently stops reporting. It just stays at North. When I go outside I see that it is pointing to the proper wind direction. I think the potentiometer is going bad. I will clean the connector and plug again when the weather dries out. After all these years of making the VP2, the anemometer/wind vane should be bulletproof. One should not have to spend $1000.00 on an anemometer.