I think I may have failed in my description :-) The only detachable part of a VP2's rain gauge is the black funnel - the tipping spoons, etc. are part of the base unit - you'd have to saw it apart to separate it. The UV/solar sensors are on a tray above and behind the rain funnel, but plug into the main sensor array. The CR-123 is backup power for the main sensor suite, so if you get a repeater it's powered separately - solar, CR-123 and apparently it also has a AC input (the main sensor suite takes AC power - that's my power source). The repeater can feed the anemometer, uv/solar, and a rain gauge, plus temp or temp/humidity so that's helpful. The VP2+ has a solar/battery-fed fan drawing air through the temp/humidity sensors so having it "outside" isn't a big issue.
Sorry to hear about your Tempest issues - I've heard a few stories of early units having issues, but more recent units seem to be reliable. On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 11:50 AM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Tom, I didn't mention that I purchased 2 Tempests of which 3 > (yes, three of two, because the replacements sent by weatherflow were also > defective) were defective with distinct issues within less than half a > year. So, no, not again. > > For the Vantage Pro: for me it seems that more recent versions have > detachable rain buckets and one could locate the humitemp inside a "sensor > hut" and the rain bucket on top of the hut with a cabled connection to the > solar powered, battery backed transmitter. A second, solar powered battery > backed transmitter could be mounted on the mast on the roof top with the > cabled anemometer and uv/radiation sensors attached to it. I would even > tune this transmitter box with a solar powered LTO battery (lithium > titanat) instead of the CR123, in theory, this would run "forever", a LTO > can stand 10k+ cycles and still has 50% of it's rated capacity and > discharge capabilities down to -20°C (That's one of the good things in the > Tempest, they use an LTO also, but 1300mA is too small for locations near > the arctic circle obviously) > > Anyway, it is nearly impossible to get your hands on a recent VP2, at > least, where I live. So any input of a user with a more recent revision > would be very interesting. > > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CAMwKJEpscTg51bQtc0HKu1NCF_O4Z7WRZNGW3TLPk8GdaJrRZg%40mail.gmail.com.
