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West Central Iowa | For those of you who have purchased a wireless rain gauge. What kind did you buy and how well does it work.
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NW Oklahoma | Had a Oregon sceintific OR-RGR 126 and and now have an acu-rite 00614. Both guages always read about 30%less than an actural rain guage. |
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fayette county, ohio | Davis wireless weather station for my dad. Works great for last 2 years |
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NE Iowa | Radio Shack system here - it's a good thermometer - that's it. 15 mph wind shows as 3 mph and it said the 1+ inches of rain we got overnight was really only 0.4". |
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Findlay, Ohio | My son and I both have the that our John Deere dealer sold. They both work fine and seem to match the regular rain gauge. |
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North Central Oregon | Second the Davis System. Have had Oregon Scientific and Accurite as well, but they were less than satisfactory, very inaccurate. The most important thing to remember with the tipping bucket gauges is that they are absolutely level, otherwise there will be a bias to one side of the gauge and the reading will be wildly off. |
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Embarrass WI | I have had 3 of them. One Oregon Scientific, one LaCrosse, and one I can't recall the brand. They were all junk.
In fairness, I did not buy the highest priced models. Maybe if you spend more they work better. |
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| I bought an Oregon Scientific weather system about 3 yrs ago. IMO I would have been as well off as throwing $400 in the burn barrel. Thing never did work right & their service is non existent. They promised to replace two of the solar panels but they were back ordered, evidently still back ordered . They quit answering my e-mails & ph calls. I finally threw the POS away. I currently have a $29 wireless rainguage I bought either at Lowes or Menards. Son has the same one about 500' from mine, seldom do both read the same but they usually are close. |
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| Davis Instruments works great!
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High Springs, Florida | I've got a Davis Vantage Vue, and love it, got it running on Weather Display software, viewable here: http://dmfarms.com You can also see it on wunderground.com, and my weather sticker below.
A really nice non electronic old fashioned rain gauge: http://www.weatheryourway.com/cocorahs/rgcoco.htm
Edited by Mike Shimek 5/25/2011 16:15
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northwest missouri | Accurite - just put it out about 3 weeks ago - so far it seems to be reading about 25-30% less than my old guage but it is not consistent |
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Chebanse, IL..... | We gave up on the wireless gauges a few yrs back. I tried several brands & models. None were reliable for me. Big problem was usually the filling of the "tipping buckets". Seems bugs or leaves or some other type of debris would foul up the measuring system. It was usually easy to understand. You'd go out & look after a heavy rainstorm with an indication of 0.10". There would be a big old leaf covering the funnel with water sitting on top of it, or something similar.
The old manual read "cylinder-in-a-cylinder" has turned out to be what we feel is the most accurate & reliable. It's big, easy to read, and durable. It too has a funnel, but the hole is big enough that bugs or leaves don't seem to bother it.....here. |
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USofA | Accurite. Inaccurate as heck. Always reads less than actual. |
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north east IN | I have a Oregon scientific wireless rain monitor and it works great. It has a large bucket with a screen in it to keep bugs and leaves out and it keeps track off the last 9 days ( the 9 days are midnight to midnight and you can see each days rainfall ) off rain plus total rainfall. The only problem was I had a spider sin a web inside, killed the spider and been ok since.......Dave |
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SESD | I just bought a weatherwise one a few weeks ago. Haven't check the rain much with it, but the wind readings and temp seem accurate.
one like this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250634921814 |
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North Central MO | nt |
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Wireless rain gauges
