So... after talking to Davis a couple of times, they wanted to replace the transmitter unit, which is on the way, to the tune of $40. Will update once it is installed and things are back working.
Chris On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 1:36:48 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > Thanks again, guys. No, I didn't do anything silly with the sensor > connectors. I'm still suspicious that the lightening around > caused some sort of failure. I didn't try unplugging the solar panel and > removing the backup battery in the ISS to "reboot" > it, assuming that's even a thing. I'll talk to Davis and see what they > have to say. I'm not afraid of a soldering iron, so no > issues there. > > Chris > > On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 1:01:56 PM UTC-6 vince wrote: > >> On Saturday, July 17, 2021 at 11:50:39 AM UTC-7 Greg Troxel wrote: >> >>> If physically moving the bucket back and forth isn't showing up on the >>> console, and the console is displaying varying solar radiation and temp, >>> then my guess is that the reed switch that picks up the magnet for the >>> bucket is broken, or wiring to it, or perhaps the circuit it's hooked up >>> to. About 15 years ago I had a similar failure in a Vantage Pro (not >>> 2) and Davis sent me a new reed switch and I swapped it in (which did >>> require a soldering iron, but for someone who is used to soldering was >>> not hard, although I forget the details). >>> >> >> Same here. I was a little rough one time cleaning mine and broke the >> reed switch and Davis was nice enough to send me a few after I contacted >> customer support. Not a bit deal to use a soldering iron to remove the >> old one and solder a new one in, although I was sweating a bit at the time >> :-) >> >> If you're still seeing reports of radiation when you do not have a >> radiation sensor at all, you definitely want to contact Davis customer >> support unless you did something silly like plug your rain gauge sensor >> into a radiation jack or the like. >> >> -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/8952cda5-3ddc-4592-82dc-0d34acec39b3n%40googlegroups.com.
