Based on your description it sounds like a new battery (CR123 - $10) and perhaps a solar panel ($55) will handle the data problems, but I'd suggest doing just the battery first to see.
Adding UV/solar to a Davis is crazy expensive. There seem to be a lot of different replacement rain gauge assemblies available in the $60-85 range if you poke around online at Scaled Instruments (link <https://www.scaledinstruments.com/product-category/davis-instruments/parts/vantage-pro2-parts/>). Those guys are pretty responsive in my experience if you want to email questions. You could probably sell your VP2 for more than the price of whatever you're thinking of replacing it with. On Monday, April 22, 2024 at 8:34:33 AM UTC-7 wwwd...@gmail.com wrote: > My Vantage Pro 2 is showing its age. The solar panel needs to be replaced, > as I'm losing the station connection once the sun goes down and regularly > having issues with the rain gauge not registering rainfall. I know that I > can send it into Davis for a tune up ($225 do buy the parts, $400+ if they > do it), but given the cost of that I'm wondering if it is just time to > replace it. It also doesn't give me warm fuzzies that I never heard back > from them when I tried to contact them about a repair. > > Does anyone have a recommendation for a replacement station that doesn't > break the bank like the Vantage Pro? Ideally I would like to have the same > basic sensors and be able to add UV and solar radiation, as I use that to > make sure my rooftop solar is producing appropriately. And of course, > continuing to work with weewx is a requirement! :-) > > Thanks! > > -- > Dan Rich <dr...@employees.org> | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ > | "Step up to red alert!" "Are you sure, > sir? > | It means changing the bulb in the > sign..." > | - Red Dwarf (BBC) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/3e894801-4d03-4983-974d-15c6a65ad084n%40googlegroups.com.
