…… and I shall be a good boy ……. and say nothing …... On Monday, 7 May 2018 11:48:15 UTC+3, gjr80 wrote: > > Hi, > > If you are using hardware record generation then I suspect you are getting > Davis' view on rainRate; see page 12 > https://www.davisnet.com/product_documents/weather/app_notes/AN_28-derived-weather-variables.pdf > > It's not explicitly said but it appears that the Vantage stations calculate > rainfall rate based on the difference between successive tips, so would > appear you need two tips. > > You could force weeWX to calculate rainRate itself by setting rainRate = > software under [StdWXCalculate] [[Calculations]] in weewx.conf. This will > force weeWX to calculate rainRate based on rainfall in a sliding window > scaled to an hour. The default window is 15 minutes. You can vary this > window by setting rain_period = window under [[Calculations]] where window > is the window length in seconds. > > Personal preference at the end of the day, but I prefer to take what the > hardware says unless there is good reason not to. > > Gary > >
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