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 One wasn't enough! |
May 4, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Jerry L. Sullivan from Indianapolis, IN |
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I spend the summer at our lake home and purchased this item last year as we were having a lot of rain. In the fall we took it back home and my spouse wouldn't let me have it back! So I had to purchase a second unit to take back to the lake, and it's definitely been useful this rainy summer! It does exactly what it says it does and does it well! It takes a little setup time, and replacing the batteries is not as simple as I'd like, but it is extremely accurate, so well worth the small inconvenience. A good buy for the money!
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful: |
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| Not as many problems as I thought! |
November 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Ted Cashin from Avondale Estates, GA |
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I was very leery after reading the reviews here, but encouraged that it could be calibrated. I admit the batteries are ridiculous, requiring the removal of ten tiny screws (they should at least include a small screwdriver in the package; but really it needs to be redesigned) so I'm taking off one star for that. However everything else works pretty well. I have some Oregon Scientific indoor/outdoor thermometers so I didn't have much trouble setting the thing up. I followed the instructions someone posted here about determining whether the gauge is accurate. I tried pouring water and it seemed to undercount the rain (one inch of "rain" measured 0.9 inches), probably because I was pouring too fast. A better way for me was to put the gauge under a slowly dripping faucet and let it dump its water into a bowl underneath. Once it measured 1 inch, I measured the water in the bowl and it came out to 200 milliliters just like it was supposed to. Using the same method with the dripping faucet I counted about 20 drops to tilt each bucket so I feel like it is pretty well balanced. Maybe I just got a good one, but it seems to work as advertised so far. I live in Georgia so we don't get actual rain, but I will update the review if I have problems. **Update after two weeks: It has rained a couple of times and the gauge seems to work just fine and I like the 9-day memory and cumulative total (0.43 inches today and 0.87 inches in two weeks). Also I set up another gauge for a friend with similar results.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful: |
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 Check the calibration |
June 16, 2007 |
| Reviewer: BJ |
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After my initial experience with the RGR 126 rain gauge I recommend owners at least check the calibration/accuracy before assuming it is providing accurate measurements. I noticed a significant differance between my old "manual" tube style rain gauge & the RGR 126 after several recent rains which led me to suspect the wireless unit was inaccurate. Using Oregon Scientific's calibration/accuracy instructions I found my new wireless rain gauge was indicating .76" of rain for each actual inch of rainfall. I couldn't give up on the wireless rain gauge though as I do believe Oregon Scientific is a quality conscious company. So, I went in search of an RGR126 FAQ sheet since the product manual doesn't explain how to correct inaccuracies. Finding Oregon Scientific's FAQ sheet isn't that easy though. You can search it yourself or use www2.oregonscientific.com/service/faq.asp?faq=136 to link to it. In short you can check the accuracy of your RGR 126 and better yet you can correct any inaccuracies. Once the outdoor unit is mounted to a level surface you should "drizzle" 200 ml of water into the collection funnel. 200 ml of water drizzled into the outdoor unit equals one inch of rainfall recorded on the indoor display, according to Oregon Scientific. You can do this! Typical kitchen measuring cups provide 50 to 100 "ml" measurements and most of us own a kitchen measuring cup. It is important to drizzle the 200 ml of water into the remote unit funnel though. Pouring the water in will flood the measuring buckets resulting in subsequent inaccuracies. Instructions for recalibrating and accuracy are provided at the above link. Would I recommend this product to a friend? Yes, yes & no. Yes to those who just want a number; any number. Yes to those that want rainfall accuracy & "if necessary" are willing to spend some time re-calibrating the outdoor unit. No to those unwilling to take a chance on purchasing anything less than 99.9% accuracy and unwilling or unable to calibrate the outdoor unit "if needed". I'm probably one person in a thousand that received an inaccurate RGR126, but the good news is that yours can be re-calibrated should yours need it.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful: |
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 Very disappointing |
February 2, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Ray Z. from Manhattan, IL |
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Range of temperature sensor is NOT as claimed. These are not user friendly, as installing batteries in the rain gauge requires removal of 10 small screws with a jewelers screw driver.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful: |
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 sturdy rain/temp gauge |
February 23, 2006 |
| Reviewer: K. Larkin from Portland, OR |
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this rain gauge was clearly engineered rather than slapped together like the lacrosse gauge i had before. the history only goes back 9 days, but it actually works. the instructions require a bit of patience, but if you follow the pictures rather than the text it's quite easy to set up. it has worked flawlessly and really is built impressively.
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