Not recording rainfall at all. I know it's not rained since 22 March, but my
standard gauge has recorded a little for the last 3 days.
Have experimented with trickling some water in, but nothing!
Any helpers out there who can provide a clear non-technical solution?
Thanks in advance.

--
David Mitchell, 70m amsl, Langtoft, East Riding of Yorkshire.

David Mitchell wrote:
Not recording rainfall at all. I know it's not rained since 22 March, but my
standard gauge has recorded a little for the last 3 days.
Have experimented with trickling some water in, but nothing!
Any helpers out there who can provide a clear non-technical solution?
Thanks in advance.


I assume it's a tipping bucket gauge like my WMII, unless you have a
connection problem or break in the wire it may need it's reed switch
replacing. You can pick these up quite cheaply from RS Component's. I
have a couple of spares and the RS Part No. is 229-3670

http://rswww.com/cgi-bin/bv/rswww/se...cape&Nr=avl:uk

If you want advice on how to replace it, please ask, you will need a
soldering iron. It took me about 3 attempts as I'm a bit of a fumble
fingers, but if I can do it, anyone can :-)

I hope this helps.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

David Mitchell wrote:
Not recording rainfall at all. I know it's not rained since 22 March, but my
standard gauge has recorded a little for the last 3 days.
Have experimented with trickling some water in, but nothing!
Any helpers out there who can provide a clear non-technical solution?
Thanks in advance.

You should check that the spiders haven't set up camp in your tipping
buckets and welded them down.

--
Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.canterburyweather.co.uk/
Reverse my e-mail address to reply by e-mail

My tipping bucket rain gauge stopped working a while back and I found out it
was the reed switch that had failed. As Keith of Southend says, they are
cheap but slightly fiddly to replace though nothing complicated. Plenty of
info out there in Googleland about replacing magnetic reed switches.
________________
Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
83 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk

David Mitchell wrote:

Not recording rainfall at all. I know it's not rained since 22 March, but my
standard gauge has recorded a little for the last 3 days.
Have experimented with trickling some water in, but nothing!
Any helpers out there who can provide a clear non-technical solution?

You need to remove the black funnel (twist it anti-clockwise) and
check that the bucket is free to tip. You should be able to easily
operate the bucket by hand and it should record .01" or 0.25 mm
(approx) for each tip.

Spider web will prevent it tipping... an open circuit microswitch, or
cable, will prevent it from recording. You should be able to jump the
microswitch with a short length of conductor to verify the location of
any open circuit.

--
John H