Ah, my apologies, I should have explained that the rain gauge is an Oregon Scientific PCR800 with a 20cm funnel on top to improve it's resolution - one of the so called frankin-gauges :)
Tom, thanks for that information I'll update those entries On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 4:48 PM Andrew Milner <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom - possibly not 100% right. US buckets are .01 inch but EU and UK > models have an adaptor to change the bucket tips to .02mm rather than what > should have been .0254mm. Not sure what the 'adaptor' actually does though > (even though I have one in my setup), and if adapter is used console needs > to also be set to metric display units. > > On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 23:23:43 UTC+2, Thomas Keffer wrote: >> >> That sounds about right. >> >> Note: values can be None, so the most robust expression would be >> >> rain = rain * 1.15 if rain is not None else None >> etc. >> >> BTW, why 0.23mm? That's an odd number. A normal Davis bucket represents >> 0.01 inch, or 0.254 mm. >> >> -tk >> >> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 1:03 PM Colin Larsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I agree Andrew, I guess we could call this a work in progress by the >>> developer :) >>> >>> One other question on rain - my bucket tip has calculated out to 0.230 >>> mm per tip. To allow for that I have added the following into weewx.conf. >>> Are they all required? Is the correction factor for the rain rate correct >>> or required at all? I noticed with a single tip the rainfall recorded >>> correct at 0.23mm but the rainRate was 0.2mm per hour, so added the >>> conversion below >>> >>> rain = rain * 1.15 >>> >>> dayRain = dayRain * 1.15 >>> >>> monthRain = monthRain * 1.15 >>> >>> yearRain = yearRain * 1.15 >>> >>> rainRate = rainRate * 1.15 >>> >>> On Wednesday, 9 January 2019 02:37:59 UTC+13, Andrew Milner wrote: >>>> >>>> if it is a true emulator then I would have thought he should be >>>> providing all the fields specified by Davis for LOOP packets in their comms >>>> protocol >>>> >>>> https://www.davisinstruments.com/support/weather/download/VantageSerialProtocolDocs_v261.pdf >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 12:01:53 UTC+2, Colin Larsen wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Yep :) >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, 22:32 gjr80 <[email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, 8 January 2019 19:01:13 UTC+10, Colin Larsen wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi m >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Wow, thanks for all that information! The developer in the end did >>>>>>> give me the fix to add monthRain into the Loop data (he took a little >>>>>>> convincing) and I think it all looks good now. I need to do some db >>>>>>> cleanup >>>>>>> to get rid of some untidy data, but that will be easy enough. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The station is Arduino based and most users use Cumulus/CumulusMx >>>>>>> which is apparently quite happy without that Loop record. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hmm, OK, so it was half an emulator then :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Gary >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
