Yep...spiders love the tipper as playground equipment. They also can spin their web on the tipper and stop it from working.
I clean mine out regularly. Was it windy when you had the rain results. I moved the rain gauge down to the bottom of the pole I had it on as it was swaying in the wind and making the tipper move. On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 11:02:01 UTC+11, Macha wrote: > > ... well at least I think it is. > > I’ve had a "cheapo" wh1080 system running for a few years with an RPi and > weewx. > > I’ve quite a few glitches over the years - lockups and communication > dropouts sorted with fresh batteries and/or restarts. Silly readings have > been tamed with +/- limits. > > The latest behaviour is stumping me. Over the past few weeks I’ve been > getting rain readings when no rain has fallen. Furthermore, these rain > readings are "sensible" in the sense of being within normal rainfall levels > around here. For example last week it recorded around 100mm per day for 3 > days, which is what continuous heavy rain would produce. > > Except it hasn’t actually rained for several weeks. > > I’ve tried the following ... > > disconnecting the rain sensor (tipping bucket) - it still records rain. > > moving the remote unit closer (now within 5m of the console) - no > difference. > > changing USB cable (no change). > > using a powered USB device (no change). > > Any clues (please) > > > > -- 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/8506ea66-2081-4ebb-9623-4106f63b9d43%40googlegroups.com.
