I need cable wiring information for RJ11 cable connecting the WS-2310-11S Console to the WS-2310-25S Hygro unit. La Crosse Support is of no help for this long out of production unit. Replacement cables are not available in the marketplace. Manufacturing a new cable is inexpensive and easy to do. Maybe a WS-2310 user, or possibly WS-23xx user with the same cable, can look at his/her RJ11 cable and answer my question. I really need to know the correct RJ11 connector orientation for the flat 4 wire cable that connects the WS-2310-11S console to the WS-2310-25S Hygro unit so I can manufacture a replacement. Voltage measurements on the pins indicate the cable is indeed polarized and a reversed connector could possibly cause damage. The cable may have a raised rib on one side making it easy to identify connector orientation without having to trace the length of the cable nor trying to see the color of the wires in the connector. The attached image should make it clear as to connector orientation. I have been running wireless for the last year and want to revert to a wired configuration but have misplaced the last used cable. I found one older cable and it was wired "straight through" as shown in the attached image but I need to be sure. I believe the "straight through" cable I show in the image is the one most commonly used as a standard telephone extension cable. It might make sense that LaCrosse would use the most common cable configuration in use elsewhere.
Here is a little more background on the RJ11 cables used by the WS-2310 for connection between the WS-2310-25 Hygro unit and the rain gauge, wind gauge, and console. These cables do not last long in the sun and weather. I have had to replace cables every 5 or 6 years and I have had to replace connectors more often than that when they become corroded. Any fracture in the cable insulation leads to water migrating down the cable interior and if water reaches the RJ11 connector then the entire system fails. To safeguard against undetected insulation failure in the cable, I learned to put a service loop of cable below the Hygro unit and put a small hole in the cable at the low point to allow water to drain from the cable before reaching the connector at the Hygro unit, or worse yet, water migrating into the interior if the Hygro unit itself.
I am a new member of this group today. I operate a La Crosse WS-2310 weather station since 2005. I use open source Open2300 command line software on Windows 2000 to acquire the raw weather data via my own custom Perl program. Date is processed and graphed in Perl updating a static web page. Weather data is also uploaded to CWOP via Open2300. CWOP data is propagated in the cloud to numerous other weather outlets on the Internet.