My question is perhaps academic as the suspect ws2300 has already been sent back to the supplier, however…
Bought the ws2300 a week or so ago and installed the sensors etc. All was working fine using the wireless link. However like many I decided the 2.5 minute refresh interval was too high - I also had the additional problem that we live in a 250year old house with 2ft thick walls and the wireless signal is somewhat hit and miss inside the house. So I decided to wire everything in and this is where my question comes in.
Having wired the unit in all data stopped. As soon as the cable was removed it started receiving wireless data again and was back to normal. Obviously it was recognising the cable had been attached but apparently not receiving anything from the other end for whatever reason. I tried just about everything - factory resets, leaving the batteries out overnight, fresh batteries, using the mains power unit, 3 different data cables etc but no joy. The supplier was at a loss so I have returned the base station and the external thermo/hygro unit on the grounds it could be either or both ends at fault.
Out of interest has anyone experienced a WS2300 ( or any other lacrosse products I suppose ) that suffered from a faulty wired connection?
Thanks
Gareth.
(Located on top of a windswept hill 755ft asl near Matlock in Derbyshire, England!)
In wired mode I can’t receive wind data. I suspect it is to do with the length of the cable (i have an 8 metre extension from the wind sensor cable to the base station, and a 10 metre extension on the base station to console cable). According to the manual this set-up should work but it is not.
Very frustrating, especially considering I buried the cable and clipped it all to the posts etc. before I noticed there was no wind data #-o.
one suggestion:
make sure you are using good quality twisted pair cable, e.g CAT5 cable…
that should help (and that also stops electrical interfence data spikes)
I’m updating this thread as I solved my problem - it was something simple but hopefully it helps someone in future.
I waasn’t aware that most phone cable extensions are straight-through i.e. the wire arrangement is the same on both ends (say black/red/green/yellow, left to right looking tab down). Being a hardware hoarder I had a variety of extensions with different set-ups, and some of them were cross-over cables (say yellow/green/red/black on the other end). To make matters worse, some of the straight-through cables were the opposite pattern to the La Crosse standard cables. As I was using modular joiners rather than splicing cable, I was getting quite confused by what was happening.
To cut a long story short (and several modular plugs later), I left all the plugs at the thermo/hygro sensor as the default configuration and made sure the rest of the cables were straight-through (same configuration) back to the console and wind sensor. I can now leave the wind sensor on the roof with an 8m extension, and the sensor to the house is on a 10m extension.
Just goes to show that having a crimp tool does not make you an electrical guru :oops:.