{"id":8422,"date":"2018-11-19T11:10:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:11:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:11:48","slug":"weather-down-and-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/weather-down-and-up\/","title":{"rendered":"weather down.. and up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/davisvantagevue2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/davisvantagevue2-299x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"299\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/davisvantagevue2-299x299.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/davisvantagevue2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/davisvantagevue2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe Davis Vantage Vue weather station dropped off the air one night, but we didn&#8217;t notice until a day or two later.  The thing is, it came back up in the daytime. Hmmm.. That sounds like a dead battery and a solar panel picking up the slack.<br \/>\nHaul the stepladder out back to the station, open it up test the battery and lo and behold.. it was lower than 2.7vdc.  It is a lithium CR123 battery that is nominally rated at above 3v and when it falls below 2.7v it is considered dead.  Bummer.  And it was only 10 months old!<br \/>\nLooked back through the records and it looks like we bought two of them back in 2017 December&#8230; do you think we could find the other one?  Not a chance.<br \/>\nIt is not a common battery and it took a few more days to track one down, at a better price of only $5, and then install on Saturday morning.. so we have lost a few days of nighttime weather data but all in all it is not too bad.<\/p>\n<p>We also bought a 2nd battery (good price remember?) and this time it is taped to the internal receiver station!  So far &#8230; good data day and night!<br \/>\nNote to self in the springtime&#8230; lower the station from the top of the existing 8&#8242; 4&#215;4 post to something lower down that does not require a stepladder to access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Davis Vantage Vue weather station dropped off the air one night, but we didn&#8217;t notice until a day or two later. The thing is, it came back up in the daytime. Hmmm.. That sounds like a dead battery and a solar panel picking up the slack. Haul the stepladder out back to the station, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8424,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions\/8424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}