Clevedude's Weather Blog

Rain Gauge Connection Problems Again

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 02:25:00 GMT

I had this same problem back in February when a colony of incredibly tiny ants had moved into my connector. I replaced the connector back then and sealed it with liquid rubber on top of electrical tape. Looks like I must have sealed in some moisture somehow because when I took apart the connector today, the contacts were corroded again. Luckily, I had some extra phone end connectors and a phone end connector repair tool, which I used to replaced the corroded end lea...
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Problems with Airport Losing Connection Daily

Thu, 17 May 2012 15:21:00 GMT

For the past month or more my Airport Base Station has been losing its connection daily. So this has been interrupting the upload of data to Weather Underground. I have also had problems with my rain gauge. A few month as ago it began acting erratically, recording when it wasn't raining, not recording when it was raining. At first I thought it was being affected by high wind shaking the collector, but I'm not too sure. I recently looked at a data logger that Ambient...
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My Rain Guage

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:31:00 GMT

Well, I am reasonably confident that my rain gauge is working properly. Here is my entry from my YouTube channel. "My rain gauge on my weather station had stopped working, so I decided to go outside to see if I could find out why. I had some telephone cables connecting the rain gauge to the transmitter, joined together by a plastic connector and taped up with electrical tape to keep out the rain. As I untaped the connector, some incredibly tiny ants came scurrying ...
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