Thanks again to everyone who replied for the responses and the advice. I went ahead and ordered a tune-up kit from Scaled Instruments, and while I was at it I picked up a new rain gauge to get something more reliable than my old double-bucket sensor. I also grabbed a replacement capacitor from a local electronics supply house (the last one left tin the San Jose area).
After a bit of work this past weekend I have a station that is back up and running with a bunch of new (and in some cases improved) parts that will hopefully last me another 17 years! > On Apr 22, 2024, at 08:34, wwwd...@gmail.com <wwwdr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My Vantage Pro 2 is showing its age. The solar panel needs to be replaced, as > I'm losing the station connection once the sun goes down and regularly having > issues with the rain gauge not registering rainfall. I know that I can send > it into Davis for a tune up ($225 do buy the parts, $400+ if they do it), but > given the cost of that I'm wondering if it is just time to replace it. It > also doesn't give me warm fuzzies that I never heard back from them when I > tried to contact them about a repair. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement station that doesn't > break the bank like the Vantage Pro? Ideally I would like to have the same > basic sensors and be able to add UV and solar radiation, as I use that to > make sure my rooftop solar is producing appropriately. And of course, > continuing to work with weewx is a requirement! :-) > > Thanks! > > -- > Dan Rich <dr...@employees.org> | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ > | "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure, sir? > | It means changing the bulb in the sign..." > | - Red Dwarf (BBC) -- 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 weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/77DDEB6E-F5D9-45C8-A6B6-6C91A6AEFDD5%40employees.org.
