Thanks for the advice.
@JT118. Conflicting views made it difficult to gain an understanding from the the thread you referred to but I came across a "15 Jan 2014 Rain Sensors Compared" post in the "Notes about the process" section in the page http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/weather/ where they compared FineOffset WS2080, LaCrosse WS2317, and Meade TE923W during rain events and found "The WS2080 regularly under-reports rainfall." Looking at their plots it seems the other 2 substantially disagreed a lot of the time too. I couldn't see an obvious pattern in the differences.
![[Image: weewx-rain-comparison-1.png]](http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/weather/weewx-rain-comparison-1.png)
![[Image: weewx-rain-comparison-2.png]](http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/weather/weewx-rain-comparison-2.png)
![[Image: weewx-rain-comparison-3.png]](http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/weather/weewx-rain-comparison-3.png)
@AllyCat. Thanks for pointing out the absence of Solar Power/Data. I'd missed that but was aware of the absence of a PC interface. I'm not in a hurry to get data uploading, more interested in the technology and there is other stations nearby for data in the meantime.
@JT118. Conflicting views made it difficult to gain an understanding from the the thread you referred to but I came across a "15 Jan 2014 Rain Sensors Compared" post in the "Notes about the process" section in the page http://lancet.mit.edu/mwall/projects/weather/ where they compared FineOffset WS2080, LaCrosse WS2317, and Meade TE923W during rain events and found "The WS2080 regularly under-reports rainfall." Looking at their plots it seems the other 2 substantially disagreed a lot of the time too. I couldn't see an obvious pattern in the differences.
@AllyCat. Thanks for pointing out the absence of Solar Power/Data. I'd missed that but was aware of the absence of a PC interface. I'm not in a hurry to get data uploading, more interested in the technology and there is other stations nearby for data in the meantime.