modify bucket to 0.1mm

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Thanks a lot Ian, so glad i rechecked it, that will explain why the rain amounts were off

Thanks for the concurrence Niko :wink:

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Hey Niko, just to let you know, i have been using the 0.1mm for years now with no issues at all, never hit the limit on the console
I have even had torrential rain a good few times, it works flawlessly :slight_smile: I was surprised that it worked so well, like ya said, i have gone
from a larger coffee mug to a reasonable sized kitchen bowl lol :slight_smile:

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Thanks to all the above: required reading for those who are fed up with 1 mm tip on 100 mm gauge.

I went for a 200 mm funnel to bring the modified tip down to 0.25 mm (cp European Davis 0.2 mm) and it worked beautifully today: OS console 44.2 mm, WD shows 11.1 mm, CoCoRaHS 11.2 mm. (Good vertical rain for checking, not much wind.)

P.S. OS WMR200 manual says the rain gauge can handle 9999 mm/hr: I make that 2.78 tips/second (and I don’t believe it - I think they mean the console display!).

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I went through the comments, and unless I missed something, while there is an allusion to WD settings, is there a place in WD setup or offsets or something, to modify the incoming tips to read out as a corrected value.

That is, if the tipper is off and reports 1.34 " of rain, when it really is 1.27, can one correct it with a WD setting? Where if so?
Thanks, Dale

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Control Panel → Offsets and Initial Rain → Rain Offset.

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Thank you. The excuse I have is looking right at it and not knowing what it would do, and to that degree.

Thanks again, I learn something every day, and at times, every minute!
Dale