[Aercus weather station]

I have the same model from Maplins (RIP), the only difference is that the Display doesn't have Aercus plastered over the top.

Its a pretty good bit of kit. I like being able to view the live weather when I am away and it keeps details logs of past conditions.

[Maplin W-8681-PRO sending wrong data to Wunderground]

Yes quite agree. On a separate note, how is your outdoor sensor with batteries? Do you ever find you have to change/recharge them after a while? I had an issue where they didn't seen to charge from solar, think it was the set of batteries as they were from the sensor previous to this one. I have put new ones in and well see how long they last.

[Weather Underground]

29 minutes ago, Morning Rain said:

Do you just send data to Wunderground? If all you do is use Wunderground to display and store your data I don't think your affected. At least I hope not. Perhaps Mapantz can confirm that.

Yes just what you said.Nothing more.

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=IDUNSTAB9

 

I wonder wheat will happen after the 17th June 2019?

[Maplin W-8681-PRO sending wrong data to Wunderground]

28 minutes ago, Morning Rain said:

I got it from here http://www.aercusinstruments.com/content/downloads/HP1000 STF1.zip 

you will need to put it onto a SD card to upgrade your console. You will lose all current stored data though, but I believe you can modify the main.ini file to stop it doing that.

 

Thanks, just checked and mine is currently 2.3.1. Is the link for the same or newer firmware? It's working fine so a bit reluctant in case it bricks it.Lol

[Weather Underground]

Does this mean that my station will no longer be recognized after June next year?

[Maplin W-8681-PRO sending wrong data to Wunderground]

On 19/05/2018 at 06:39, Morning Rain said:

I have the same weather station (maplin version) maybe the firmware needs upgrading on the console, mine is on 2.3.1 and is working fine at the moment, although only been up and running with it for 1 month so far.

Do you have a link for the firmware please?

[Solar charger question re my station.]

12 minutes ago, Mapantz said:

I would imagine that probably covers almost all weather stations?! lol

I used to have that station myself, and I can tell you that using rechargeable batteries is categorically wrong. The solar panel doesn't charge the batteries, exactly like the Davis Vantage Vue, and the Pro2. The solar panel simply charges a super-cap so that battery power is not wasted on bright and sunny days. The battery power takes over when the super-cap doesn't have any charge in it. In cold weather, those rechargeable batteries won't last 5 minutes.

The station is just a renamed ambient weather station, but ambient weather state on their website to use non-rechargeable lithium batteries. There has been quite a lot of discussion over the years, regarding batteries.

Thanks- that's interesting. I will have to look out for those posts when I get time this weekend.

If the unit is sending power (4.7v) to the batteries on sunny bright days would it not be dangerous to put non chargeable batteries in the unit?

[Solar charger question re my station.]

I can confirm the the unit will NOT function without batteries in the unit.

Found some fresh batteries and its working perfectly again.

[Solar charger question re my station.]

Hello, 

Just discovered this forum so will have great fun reading and answering a few topic hopefully as time goes on.

I have had my weather station for a few months now (had others before) and yesterday my unit stopped reporting to the base unit. I took it down this morning to check it and found the batteries were flat and hadn't been charging. I tested the terminals and found a voltage of 4.5v across the bottom right (+) and top left (-) terminals only. Is this normal? If so I am not sure why the batteries weren't charging so will have to get a new set.

 

Thanks