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Weather Station – UPdate

Well it is working again but as with all things here – not smooth.  last night I got home and immediately went out and found that several of the remote units have weak batteries.   How can they all go bad at once?

I got it to pick up most of the sensors by doing several resets of the control unit, also had to do some reset in the software but it came up working.   This this morning I got back on it again and got all the units filled with new batteries and did some adjustments as it had lost the monthly rain, lost the calibration for the pressure, one thing lead to another and I would get one unit fixed and back on and lose another one.  Notice this afternoon that both outside sensors show them to be 5 to 10 degrees hotter than actual (by weather station at airport).  I guess I need to move the outside sensor to a better spot but getting it so that the sun can hit the solar charging for it, although it still has to have two regular batteries in it as well.

I moved the remote unit 1 to a spot on the north side of the house.  That will be much closer to accurate “shaded” site for the future.  still some strange stuff going on as the inside console will not pick up external unit 1 and they are only 30 ft apart?  tried several times and still will not pick up?  Looks like a series of things need to be checked and done to get it back in operations but I am sure from now on I need to change the batteries in the sensor units – outside temp/humidity and channel 1 about ever 6 months.   But at least now, Knock knock on my wooden head, it is working.

WD0AJG

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