Tom  

Thanks...    I think that will help

I have seen other structures to the Delta functions...   Ill give this a try



On Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 5:45:37 PM UTC-4 Tom Keffer wrote:

> Accumulators are documented here 
> <https://github.com/weewx/weewx/wiki/Accumulators>.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no documentation for deltas, but they are pretty 
> simple. If you have some extensive quantity, say "tide", and you want to 
> calculate "delta_tide" as the difference in tide between archive records, 
> it would look like this:
>
> [StdWXCalculate]
>   [[Delta]]
>     [[[delta_tide]]]
>       input = tide
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2026 at 2:13 PM Patrick Sifford <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
>> Is there any where a definitive and correct set of documents that discuss 
>> how to use deltas and accumulators and their formats?
>>
>> I am trying to work on Acurite Atlas Rain and Lightning sensors and get 
>> confused when I read different discussions on the topics.  I think the rain 
>> is taken care of (somewhere various rain items are calculated (rainToday, 
>> rain24, ... ) that I am able to take advantage of.  However, I do not seem 
>> to find similar items for Lightning.
>>
>> I have also found multiple solutions which do not seem to be 
>> solutions...   and they all seem to be using different formats of how 
>> deltas and accumulator's work.   
>>
>> Not looking for the solution ...    looking for good reasonable 
>> documentation of how these things work to include extractors...
>>
>> Thanks
>> Patrick
>>
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