Well the world record for rainfall is apparently 38mm in one minute ( = 190mm if a for a 5 minute archive period) and the world record for an hour is 300mm in 42 minutes - so that should let you set some sensible limits!!
On Thursday, 1 December 2016 15:55:28 UTC+2, Marc Ratés wrote: > I'll check qc, didn't know > > On Thu, Dec 1, 2016, 14:51 Andrew Milner <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> What limits have you got set in QC for rain and rainrate such that the >> spikes are not detected and prevented? >> >> >> >> >> On Thursday, 1 December 2016 15:46:05 UTC+2, Chris Swanda wrote: >> >>> I mean to say >>> >>> 99 inches of RainRate (four records) written >>> >>> . >>> >>> On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 7:45:01 AM UTC-6, Chris Swanda wrote: >>>> >>>> mwall, >>>> >>>> QC has never prevented Rain nor RainRate spikes being written to my >>>> database. I typically will get 30 inches of rain (one record) and 99 >>>> inches of rain (four records) written. >>>> >>>> I typically just null them out and restart. >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 4:40:43 PM UTC-6, mwall wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 3:01:36 PM UTC-5, Marc Ratés wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> The class or plugin in charge of acurite 5 in 1 inserts randoms >>>>>> inputs of rain, today 2000mm. >>>>>> It's very annoying because I have to delete by hand the sqlite.db. >>>>>> and I lose the accuracy of the liters. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> i forgot to mention the weewx quality control (QC). >>>>> >>>>> in weewx.conf, do something like this in your QC section: >>>>> >>>>> [StdQC] >>>>> [[MinMax]] >>>>> ... >>>>> rain = 0, 1000, mm >>>>> >>>>> this will not fix the root cause (spurious data from the acurite >>>>> station), but it will prevent obviously bad values from getting into the >>>>> database. >>>>> >>>>> m >>>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "weewx-user" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/weewx-user/qCTkcG_8Nbs/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
