Resurrecting this great thread,
I wanted to accurately record record rainfall SA is expected to get
this week according to the BOM.
I did a yearly service and oil change on my Wstation. It has worked
flawlessly all this time.
I cleaned all sensors, the solar panel and spider webs from the rain gauge.
Batteries in mine are rechargeable Alkalines, still holding over 1.5v each.
They must be at least 2 years old.
Some corrosion on the battery terminals.
In reply to Phil's post below I thought I would report on how a battery
change over went and some strange behaviour afterwards.
Changed external unit batteries and on first power up could not get
signal received in the LCD unit. Side by side on the workbench.
LED would not flash (send data) on the external TX.
Took batteries out, waited 10 seconds, put them back in.
TX LED stayed on for about 10 secs then went off and flashed about
every 30 secs.
Receiver unit showed its first rec'vd data after about 2 mins then refreshed the screen
with ext data.
External temp was not part of the data! WTF! Ext humidity yes, but no temp.
Took batteries out of the LCD unit, waited 30 secs, re-inserted them.
Same.
Cylcled through temp options on touchpad, lo and behold, Ext temp starts
working again.
All fine now.
A read of the basic WS manual PDF that Jaycar have on their site says
the whole TX--->RX binding takes a minute to start working properly so
you must be patient and not insert/take batteries out at the first hint
something might be amiss.
See here: Page 5
http://www.jaycar.com.au/products_up...n%20Manual.pdf
Quote:
Originally Posted by acropolite
I have replaced my outdoor batteries (Energiser alkalines) once on my WH1081 (around 6 months ago), given that I started this thread in March 2008, that would give over 2 years from the outdoor batteries. At replacement, the outdoor unit was still running, I just elected to change the batteries as I was relocating the unit. The indoor batteries were changed at the same time, once again the unit was performing flawlessly. I should add that my indoor unit is permanently plugged in to a USB port on my PC, I haven't bothered to check to see what if any power the indoor unit receives when the PC is shut down, but it may be that it gets enough power from the USB on shutdown to not drain the batteries.
Just an added note, I covered any holes/gaps in the rainfall sensor with flywire mesh and have had no further problems from spiders.
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