[Nigel]

Hi all,
As stated in another thread I've finally connected up my TX with wind and rain sensors.  All complete guess work as to wiring to the sensors.  I have powered up the unit and I have a LED flashing every now and again.  Werk has correctly suggested I enable debugging print to serial monitor.  The question I have is should I be seeing plain English or something machine readable only on the serial monitor.  From Werk's comment "coherent" I'm thinking it should be in plain English.  In which case I have debugging to do as I have a series of interesting but meaningless characters printing out on the serial monitor.
Nigel

[Nigel]

Hum,
Just reading the lines of debug in the sketch gives me the answer...  as the degug is sending "" English strings but I'm not seeing those.  I will have a look and see what this is about as I would have thought that was something to do with the Serial Monitor set up not interpreting input correctly.
Nigel

[Nigel]

Sorted common Arduino IDE beginners lesson.  Baud rate miss match sorted.  Now to get the wires from the sensors correct.

[Nigel]

I'm assuming this thread is in the correct place as it's for a 4pro set up but since it is about sensors as opposed to the 4pro it's self I could see it being something that is of wider interest.

Edited...
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Bellow Steve identified the outer two wires (green and black on my original FO wire) as wind direction.  the inner two (yellow and red) as wind speed.  Steve has shown the correct connections as to those labelled speed and dir. respectfully.  The second wire of the sensor pair being connected to the adjacent GND.

There is no interplay between the two sensors or circuitry the anemometer simply plugs into the vain to bring the wiring together.

I could not get the anemometer to to produce a reading and have stripped the devices down to clean them and (subsequently) replace the wiring in favour of network external cabling each sensor as a twisted pair.  I guess this will support putting the wind instruments up a 10 m pole... eventually.
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I've moved wires around.  Assuming that FO sensors originally operating with two 1.5 V batteries should be on the 5 V supply.  Have assumed:
red     = +ve
black  = ground

I have:
yellow = direction
green  = not functioning

It is highly likely that the wire has broken since the anemometers last use.  The outer sheathing has split in several places.

Tipping bucket functions well:
red     = +ve
green = signal

[SR123]

Nigel,

Glad to hear you are making progress,

The FO wind sensor has 4 wires, the inner two are for the speed, the outer two are for direction (I can't remember the colours)
you need to connect them as follows,

   

The orange and white/orange are the speed wires
The green and white/green are the direction wires
It doesn't matter which way round they go, don't forget the jumper JP1 must be shorted for the FO direction
(I used cat5 cable for all my sensors)

Steve

[Nigel]

Cool I shall try that out 

[Nigel]

Steve,

That has helped in my mind.  I still get no speed but get direction.  What resolution do you get; I'm currently only getting eight points.  That's half the prior resolution (or am I imagining that).

I have some external cat 5 / 6 which I will replace the original wiring with I think.  Sounds like I have a duff wire in there some place.

Nigel

[Nigel]

Steve,
Steve stripped down the wind and rain sensors.  Replaced the anemometer wiring and bingo it's working.  Now stripping out the old wire on the vain and putting in replacement.  Another step forward.
Nigel

[werk_ag]

...replace the wiring in favour of network external cabling each sensor as a twisted pair.  I guess this will support putting the wind instruments up a 10 m pole... eventually.

For sure!