Thanks Dale - appreciate your thoughts and agree with you. It's always great to have your thought process tested occasionally :)
Colin On Sun, 13 Aug 2023 at 12:31, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Just chiming in: I have had some luck over the years calibrating my > solar sensor and having it track pretty close to the curve generated to > predict what the maximum should be. > > > Then I noticed that while most of the time it is within a tiny bit of > the displayed readings and the predicted curve, sometimes it goes nuts > and exceeds the value by a 5% or so. > > It never happens on a clear day. It often happens when clouds are > passing over. It never happens when truly cloudy. > > I have received the same advice and conclude it is NOT any gremlin nor a > reflection (which I thought of as an initial possibility) but due to the > cloud edge effect. > > Now I just take it as part of the function, and on perfectly sunny > cloudless days enjoy the sensor output tracking predicted values. > > Dale > > > -- > 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/3a8388e7-7449-1a8a-4d58-468901f5e762%40gmail.com > . > -- 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/CACjxfUuf65UOR4_RsS_tx3sSJRCX0BuEa7pWfxCk_ENo6XuoGg%40mail.gmail.com.
