Rain Guage
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Received my off the shelf tipping bucket sensor today. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331525977548?rmvSB=true
To my surprise it contained a dummy 2xAAA battery compartment. It might be possible to squeeze in a sensebender and nrf-radio (with some slight modification).
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Received my off the shelf tipping bucket sensor today. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331525977548?rmvSB=true
To my surprise it contained a dummy 2xAAA battery compartment. It might be possible to squeeze in a sensebender and nrf-radio (with some slight modification).
@hek said:
Received my off the shelf tipping bucket sensor today. http://www.ebay.com/itm/331525977548?rmvSB=true
To my surprise it contained a dummy 2xAAA battery compartment. It might be possible to squeeze in a sensebender and nrf-radio (with some slight modification).
@hek
Did you ever wire this up with sensebender & radio squeezed in?
I have this same guage I want to use with sensebender -
No, never had time to finish my rain gauge this summer.
But it should be doable. But the big pcb in there has to be modified, or even better is probably to move the reed switch directly to the sensebender.
@hek said:
No, never had time to finish my rain gauge this summer.
But it should be doable. But the big pcb in there has to be modified, or even better is probably to move the reed switch directly to the sensebender.
ok thanks
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Hi.
i'm having some trouble whit my rain gauge...My rain gauge is a Aercus KW9015, using the code provided i'm getting rain count every hour whit no rain at all.
I don't know what to do to fix this.Over the rain gauge i have 4 connections.
1 - GND
2 - TX1 --- Temperature sensor
3 - TX2 --- Rain sensor
4 - VCCWhy i'm i getting reads of rain ever 1h when there is no rain ?
Can anyone help me whit this problem ? -
Hi.
i'm having some trouble whit my rain gauge...My rain gauge is a Aercus KW9015, using the code provided i'm getting rain count every hour whit no rain at all.
I don't know what to do to fix this.Over the rain gauge i have 4 connections.
1 - GND
2 - TX1 --- Temperature sensor
3 - TX2 --- Rain sensor
4 - VCCWhy i'm i getting reads of rain ever 1h when there is no rain ?
Can anyone help me whit this problem ? -
Some times i do get value 0 but other times i get rain value a big rain value for example values above 10mm of rain.
The update is made every hour. Yesterday the rain value was 148mm when there was no rain at all. It doesn't rain for the last month.Ill try today reassembling the arduino, clear cd rom and flash again the rain gauge code.
But i don't understand why i get this values.
I even beleaved that the sensor was sendind data because off the wind... but it's not the problem. -
Some times i do get value 0 but other times i get rain value a big rain value for example values above 10mm of rain.
The update is made every hour. Yesterday the rain value was 148mm when there was no rain at all. It doesn't rain for the last month.Ill try today reassembling the arduino, clear cd rom and flash again the rain gauge code.
But i don't understand why i get this values.
I even beleaved that the sensor was sendind data because off the wind... but it's not the problem.how is it connected electronically?
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At the rain gauge i have an arduino nano conneting PIN "d3" to TX2 over the rain gauge circuit, the arduino is powered at pins VIN and GND.
The rain gauge gets its power from the 3.3V over the arduino.im posting two images from the rain gauge circuit:
Starting to believe i had connect someting rong like for example had switched TX1 and TX2 at the rain gauge
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At the rain gauge i have an arduino nano conneting PIN "d3" to TX2 over the rain gauge circuit, the arduino is powered at pins VIN and GND.
The rain gauge gets its power from the 3.3V over the arduino.im posting two images from the rain gauge circuit:
Starting to believe i had connect someting rong like for example had switched TX1 and TX2 at the rain gauge
No PULLUP or PULLDOWN resistor?
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if you don't pull up/down the signal, you may get floating voltages and spurious interrupts occurring.
try to use the internal pullup
pinMode(yourInterruptPin, INPUT_PULLUP);if that does not work try an external 10kOhm resistor to pull it up/down for your switch.
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Going to put the 10kOhm resistor. the internall pullup did not work.
One question. the resistor i put it between de 5v and the D3 pinto PULL UP, yes.
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Thanks going to try it now. And today is a good day since its raining.
No luck... now i'm getting only "0"
What i have done until now:
Put a resistor 10kOhm between the GND and D3 Pin from arduino and connect it to TX2 over rthe rain gauge.
And connected the 5V from arduino to the VCC over the rain gauge.But i'm only getting 0 ...
send: 4-4-0-0 s=3,c=1,t=28,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,st=fail:-0.2
read: 5-5-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
send: 4-4-0-0 s=4,c=1,t=16,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,st=ok:0
New Sensor State... Sensor: Not Tripped
read: 3-3-0 s=0,c=1,t=38,pt=7,l=5,sg=0:4.748
read: 0-0-4 s=4,c=2,t=24,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1
read: 5-5-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
read: 5-5-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0: -
Thanks going to try it now. And today is a good day since its raining.
No luck... now i'm getting only "0"
What i have done until now:
Put a resistor 10kOhm between the GND and D3 Pin from arduino and connect it to TX2 over rthe rain gauge.
And connected the 5V from arduino to the VCC over the rain gauge.But i'm only getting 0 ...
send: 4-4-0-0 s=3,c=1,t=28,pt=7,l=5,sg=0,st=fail:-0.2
read: 5-5-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
send: 4-4-0-0 s=4,c=1,t=16,pt=1,l=1,sg=0,st=ok:0
New Sensor State... Sensor: Not Tripped
read: 3-3-0 s=0,c=1,t=38,pt=7,l=5,sg=0:4.748
read: 0-0-4 s=4,c=2,t=24,pt=0,l=1,sg=0:1
read: 5-5-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:
read: 5-5-255 s=255,c=3,t=7,pt=0,l=0,sg=0:I guess I'd need to see a schematic or a good photo.
can you generate a simple interrupt with a pushbutton and a resistor?
