Thanks Stephen

Ron
"Stephen Burt" wrote in message
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On 4 Mar, 10:52, "Ron Button" wrote:
Sounds like a good buy,except I can't find it on the Maplin product page ,
could somebody point me to it please ?

Can't find the one that used to be on Maplins, but there's one on
Conrad Electronics looks to be a slightly later version of the one I
bought from there a year ago:

http://www1.uk.conrad.com/

Search 'rain gauge'. £20.99. Recommended.

"Ron Button" wrote in message
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Can't find the one that used to be on Maplins, but there's one on
Conrad Electronics looks to be a slightly later version of the one I
bought from there a year ago:
http://www1.uk.conrad.com/

Search 'rain gauge'. £20.99. Recommended.

.... a word of caution Conrad. I too ordered one of these units a few
weeks ago. It arrived in it's own small box, which had been packed in a
*much* larger cardboard travel box, but there was *no* intermediate
packing of any kind between the product box and the travelling box -
consequently this unit had been allowed to rattle around in transit, and
I wasn't overly surprised when I found that the unit would not work
properly.

Conrad refunded IN FULL (i.e. including my return postage) the full cost
of the unit, and promised to look at the packaging of such items so I
can't fault them on the after-sales, but if you do decide to order, it
might be as well to ask if it will be packaged properly to avoid damage
in transit.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
Bracknell

Never mind - I got a Davis Vantage Pro 2 a couple of days ago :-) I'll
leave the Maplins rain gauge running and compare the 2 rain readings when
we next get rain. Will post the results.

OK we've had rain. When my Maplin's rain gauge first reached 4mm, my Davis
VP2 was showing 5.2mm. Looks like mine is also under-reading.
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Regards,

Hugh Jampton