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<\/a><\/p>\nI then proceed to verify that the solar panel was charging the super capacitor, which it was (This is what powers the sensor most of the time).\u00a0 The CR123 backup battery was new (powers the sensor if the super capacitor runs out of power after a long night or cloudy day).\u00a0 I then checked the main console’s backup battery and found that one of them had corroded, so I replaced the 3 C batteries.\u00a0 The main console runs on AC power so the batteries are just for power outages.\u00a0 My previous Oregon Scientific weather station would have transmission errors when the main console batteries were exhausted.\u00a0 But even with new batteries in the Davis, the problem still existed.<\/p>\n
So after some reading online, but still with no really solution, the last thing to try before calling Davis for support was change the transmission channels.\u00a0 So I changed it to a new channel and things started working correctly again.\u00a0 The interesting thing is the main console started reporting Channel 1 as possible data after the sensor was changed to the new channel. So I left the console to gather data from Channel 1, but no good or bad packets were received even through it thought something was there.\u00a0 So the problem now appears to be frequency channel confusion and not a bad battery.\u00a0 Time will tell.\u00a0 So as of late this evening, I’ve put the station back outside. Once I’ve verified no more blank data, I’ll then re-enable uploading to Weather Underground.<\/p>\n
I sure noticed that I missed the local data today!\u00a0 Wasn’t sure what to wear outside on my walk.\u00a0 The Weather Network data was so 1 hour ago and it had cooled off since that report.<\/p>\n
Happy weather watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So you may have noticed that today’s weather was reporting a much more pleasant temperature of +21 celcius.\u00a0 Was a nice day, as long as you stayed indoors. The weather station was having transmission errors and were causing me grief as it was reporting “Low Battery on Station 1”, but a new battery was in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/didsburywx.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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