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Post by Powderjockey on Jul 29, 2019 16:50:35 GMT -8
Today, my wife said the hanging baskets didn't look very good. She checked the sprinkler controller and found out the systems has been basically shut down until next Tuesday. Knowing the sprinkler system is tied to my weather station, I found I was somehow accummulating a large amount of rain per hour. Right now I'm at 106 mm/hr, that's 4.17 in/hr. At these rains, the house will float, never mind needing an ark.
What could be triggering these high number, especially when it is not raining and has not for the last 10 days or more?
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Post by SDL on Jul 30, 2019 6:56:18 GMT -8
Noise on the Rain bucket line or lots of vibration on the bucket.
I would guess it is noise. Has something come loose or something in the wiring changed?
BP
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Post by Powderjockey on Jul 30, 2019 16:54:05 GMT -8
Bucket is not moving around so it must noise. You can watch the amount climb, probably at every reading. I moved the cable forward on my deck, but they are still in the same PVC piping.
I'll check the connection at the bucket.
What else can one check if the connection is fine?
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Post by SDL on Aug 2, 2019 14:06:05 GMT -8
Are you SURE you don't have the rain bucket plugged into the wrong cable? If you do, the rain bucket would behave that way (as the anemometer turns).
BP
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 2, 2019 17:31:21 GMT -8
I will swap and see.
I was thinking about that, but marked them the wires as I took them off the old system.
Can the amount be reset to zero?
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 3, 2019 13:12:21 GMT -8
I will swap and see.
I was thinking about that, but marked them the wires as I took them off the old system.
Can the amount be reset to zero?
Doesn't appear to have changed or fixed anything.
I'll have to get to the where the extensions are and see if they are under pressure(stretched).
I see if I shut the system down, then restart things up, the rain resets to zero.
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Post by SDL on Aug 5, 2019 4:40:52 GMT -8
Hmmm. So the rain just constantly increases (like it was connected to the Anemometer). Could it be a lose connection (stretched wire?)? You might try swapping the RJ11 cables at both ends to test that theory.
Or use a different cable. Also, check your wiring inside your box. You may have reversed the wires inside.
Anemometer PiWeather/J5 Pi2Grover / D20/21 Anemometer to Computer PiWeather Board
Rain Bucket PiWeather/J6 Pi2Grover/ D13/ D16 Rain Bucket to Computer PiWeather Board
BP
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 5, 2019 13:33:28 GMT -8
I've got the rain cable disconnected, restarted the system and I'm still getting outrageous readings. I'll check the wiring inside the box.
EDIT:
I rechecked the wiring they are all where they should be.
I disconnected the short wire inside the box (from PiWeather board to the adapter to the outside of the box) so there is nothing connected to the PiWeather board on the rain side of things and the readings continue.
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Post by SDL on Aug 6, 2019 16:01:09 GMT -8
I still think that something is misfired inside the box.
Would you take a picture that shows me the wiring and post it here?
Tape down the anemometer and see if your rain quits going up.
BP
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 7, 2019 18:30:28 GMT -8
I still think that something is misfired inside the box. Would you take a picture that shows me the wiring and post it here? Tape down the anemometer and see if your rain quits going up. BP OK, I'll grab some photos of the inside of the box and tie the spinner down.
Attached is a snippet from Wunderground from Aug 5. The left side of the image was a re-boot of the system. There is nothing attached to the rain side of the PiWeather board, Nothing.
You will see a 523 KM gust at the top of the image. I remember looking at the spinner during supper and thinking, I've never seen it spin that fast. I checked Wunderground and checked the gust and was very surprised. Perhaps it is not accurate either? But it was spinning!
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Post by SDL on Aug 8, 2019 8:48:34 GMT -8
Yes, there is a gust problem. We just saw it too. It's a bug that will be addressed next revision. V043
Need more information. I can't see the wires from the Pi2Grover board to the PiWeather board for the Anemometer and Rain bucket.
I'll wait for the results of the tie down test.
BP
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 8, 2019 18:44:32 GMT -8
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Post by SDL on Aug 9, 2019 7:39:43 GMT -8
Results of the tie down test?
BP
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 9, 2019 13:42:56 GMT -8
Results of the tie down test? BP I have zeros across the board. This also includes the temperature.
As I type this (Fri, 2019-08-09) the system crashed and I have nothing reporting.
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Post by Powderjockey on Aug 9, 2019 14:15:31 GMT -8
OK, figured out why my temperature had changed to show zero Celsius. In another thread about the SHT30 showing an error at start up. You advised that was it was not finding the the SHT30 and it should be SHT30GSPIN = 6 defined in your config.py file. So I added it to the conflocal.py file. The AM2315 was on pin 6 at the time and I commented that line out after adding the SHT30GPIN = 6. Hence, no outside temperature.
Changed it back and the temperature is fine now.
However, the tie down has produced nothing on either the wind, as it should, nor under rain.
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