I have a Ws 2500 weather station with solar sensor
Every other seems allright and well readed by WD…
Solar sensor brightness seems to be converted in % (I don’t know if the data is correct or not, I guess it’s calculated with lat and long, and day duration, or something like that…)
2 questions about that
In France, we have daylight saving time (+ 1 hour between end of March and end of October), so the time in Paris is GMT + 2.
Shall I make some corrections to have good “solar description” during the day (I think that “Dawn” is a bit too early in the day…) ?
2nd question : I don’t have any data for the sunshine duration, but the weather station gives it good…
How can I set WD to have this ??
Actually, I ticked “Set the weather icons…”, “Plot as blocked in”, “Show apparent solar temp”, “Plot solar %…”, “Plot WD’s own ET…”, “Store solar reading…”
But sunshine hours still at 0…
hi
there is a use daylight saving in the solar setup, so untick that if that is in use
wd will calcualte the daily sunshine hours itself, by comparing the actual solar reading with that expected for the time of day for you lat/long…and using the thresholds you have set
i dont use the reading from the actual station
hi
there is a use daylight saving in the solar setup, so untick that if that is in use
wd will calcualte the daily sunshine hours itself, by comparing the actual solar reading with that expected for the time of day for you lat/long…and using the thresholds you have set
i dont use the reading from the actual station
Thanks, it was ticked but with “0” minute offset needed…
I ask again the same question about sunshine duration, WD doesn’t give me the data which is on weather station
For example, today I have 1.49 h of sunshine duration, and WD stills saying 0.00
What’s wrong ??
Brightness is well converted in %, which gives sky conditions (as overcast, etc…), that is working good, but not the duration…
In the solar setup page of WD, I ticked “Set the weather icons…”, “Plot as blocked in”, “Show apparent solar temp”, “Plot solar %…”, “Plot WD’s own ET…”, “Store solar reading…”
But sunshine hours still at 0…
hi
it looks like wd is not using the solar data from the ws2500 to total up sunshine hours (it does that independent from the station )
i will have to look into why its not
but, now, does the solar % go above the threshold you have set for bright sunshine (i.e 85%)?
sorry to talk about this, but solar sunshine duration stills not working, and tells me 0:00 today, and WS 2500 tells : 3h23…
Some thing is wrong…
In the solar setup page of WD, I ticked “Set the weather icons…”, “Plot as blocked in”, “Show apparent solar temp”, “Plot solar %…”, “Plot WD’s own ET…”, “Store solar reading…”
No, the highest level of solar% today was 44%. I’ve try to set to “cloudy” between 35 and 55%
Here is the entire record in “customtextout.txt” file 997.0,19.2,12.8,18.9,15.4,18.5,79,26.6,SSW,32.6,32.6,9.2,55.9,436.3,NUAGEUX,0.0,44 %,576,12:45,20/10/2004
thats the problem
you need to get the raw solar reading higher
do that via the solar adjust number in the ws2010/ws2500 data setup
(Ws2500 bright sun shine LUX number)
reduce that number
the % is based on the raw reading compared to the maximum reading expected for your lat/long and for the time ofday (you need to tick to use daylight saving or not), and for your time zone (you need that set correctly in windows regional settings
SO, I did it
I’ve set Ws2500 bright sun shine LUX number to 10000 instead of 20000, and actually, sun is shining great without any cloud, and the brightness says 32%… I guess I need to reduce more the Lux number
But, a few minutes ago, sun is directly on the luxmeter, and it tells 100%…
I don’t know if the settings are well or not
So, first day of new settings on my brightness and solar sensor
I’ve setted LUX number on 10000 instead of 20000, and the result is… 5.8 h of sunshine duration today.
The WS 2500 station says : 4h04. I have more than 30% too much…
I’ll try to increase a little the LUX number at about 13000 to correct this
So, I’ve setted LUX number to 13000 instead of 10000, and weather is exactly the same as yeterday, blue and blue sky, but this time I have only 36% (yesterday 100% but too long sunshine duration of the day)…
