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Hopefully this is ok to post here (mods - please delete if not). I am sadly having to give up my wireless Davis Vantage Pro 2 due to personal circumstances. I have had it for quite a few years and the service it has given me has been excellent (aside from a transmission problem when I first got it and the usual blown capacitor which Davis promptly rectified). There currently is one known problem with the front solar panel which has broken at the bottom edge and so requires replacement (a quick search looks like this would cost in the region of £55). I also have the anemometer sensor transmitter kit, this enables the anemometer to be fixed away from the VP2 sensor suite and up to 300m from the receiving console. Included is: Wireless VP2 Pro Plus (includes the additional UV and solar radiation sensors). Anemometer transmitter kit. VP2 console (have not been able to find the mains power cable because I have used the datalogger which means it requires batteries to run) datalogger Weatherlink software Weather Display software Manuals Everything noted above for £300 not including delivery (collection from East Sussex would be preferred). I hope someone can give this wonderful bit a kit a bit of TLC that it deserves and in doing so gets to record some marvellous weather.

34.0 here on the south coast, starting to drop now as cloud arrives from the west

It's been steady rain here in Hastings since 6:30 this morning and will soon be tipping over the 25mm of rain mark. Had this been a 'cold' channel low I think it's fair to say Coronavirus would be taking a step back from the front pages!

some very welcome rain in Hastings for the past hour, preceded by some thunder. Looks like we are in the bulls eye for the line of cloud/rain coming out of France and could be with us for some while. Still a hot and sticky 27.7 in the home-office, though a pleasant 19.1 outside. Think I may get an umbrella out and do some paperwork in the garden!

0 - 27 mph gust in a matter of minutes. rain coming along with it and hopefully a cooler feel

Vantage Pro2 reading went from 31.6 to 36.2 in the space of a couple of hours this afternoon. It's now dropped to e meagre 35.7!!! Amazing temps for the coast

Yep, heard it too with a smaller one a couple of minutes after. Currently 25.4C + 64% humidity + 3 mph SE = feeling v. warm

very granular snow / rain coming down in Hastings. Absolutely freezing and feels far colder than the -7 wind chill my Vantage Pro is telling me.

good few cms here in Hastings from some hefty showers through the morning. Sun is now out and temp rising to the dizzy height of +0.1C.

forgot to add: 4 years ago I spent £3000 on a snow blower as I've got a long hilly driveway and was fed up with having to use shovels. Low and behold the first meaningful snow we have in 4 years and it's the wrong bloody snow.......too wet to use the machine

Just got in and don't fancy heading back out again, so here's a quick pic from my office window (Hastings, 80M ASL; currently 0.9C, DP 0C

heavy snow in Hastings, big flakes and lots of coverage. Roads aren't the best, particularly side rides. Had to send my two workers home as they have to get out to Battle.

Looking from Hastings it is South East, half way between our coast and France. This one cloud has been flashing away for over 30 minutes and this last minute I counted 47 flashes! It doesn't appear to be moving just slowly expanding / opening up. Quite earie with so much lightning and no sound. Temp here is a sultry 18.8C at the mo

Woah! Had been quiet for a few minutes then one almighty flash-boom. Think Hastings may have a few more people awake after that!

Just an update in case anyone has a similar issue with the VP2 in the future....it turned out that my data logger had gone faulty. I have to say that McMurdo (the UK importer for Davis) have been absolutely brilliant dealing with my solar panel fault and then the data logger. The VP2 is obviously an expensive piece of equipment but it certainly is worth it in the long run when the suppliers give such exemplary service

Thanks for the reply, sorry not getting back sooner - rather typically I lost my internet connection for a few days! Your prognosis looked promising but I've got 1.9 firmware installed! I bought the system in June 2006 so mine could have been manufactured prior to April, though I'm not certain. Hope McMurdo can come up with a suitable answer

Need a bit of help with my VP2 please. I Recently had to send the solar panel back to McMurdo as the supercap needed replacing, also sent back my VP2 console to get up dated firmware (they offered so thought why not!). It came back not long after and all was ok, no more nights with no readings Also had to replace the thermometer/humidity sensor on the Sensor Suite, which was bought elsewhere and installed myself with no difficulties (this was the second one I've had to replace ) I left it all running for a few days to be certain everything was ok before connecting up to my pc, which I've now done. Problem I have is the inability to download any new data, though the pc recognises the system is connected to it as the Bulletin window in Weatherlink shows my console data nicely. When I go to download it says there's 'no new data'. I've made sure the date/time correspond on the console and my pc, removed said data logger and tried re-installing after powering everything down; I've even set up a new station to see if there is any corrupt data that's upsetting my original station...all to no avail. Only thing I can see is possibly an issue is to do with the baud rate. Weatherlink confirms it is set at 19200 however when I go through the set up process on the console (pressing 'done' and '-' buttons) there is no option to set the baud rate. Looking at the manual this should be the last screen the console offers before going back to the beginning (screen 14 after the 'rain season' screen). Anyone else had issues similar to this or has updating the software caused something to go wrong. Or is the data logger not being recognised by the console and therefore doesn't offer to set the baud rate??? I would really appreciate any help or advice (going to send an email to Mcmurdo to see what they have to say). Thanks for reading. Martin

I think the wireless VP2 from America cannot be used in this country due to frequency regs. The cabled version would probably need a transformer to take into account the different voltages plus will you be covered by a warranty?. It is a great bit of kit if you're willing to stump up a wad of money(beyond purchase when things go wrong it hits the wallet a bit hard at times - my temperature/humidity sensor needed replacing last week at a cost of £150!).

reports from ESCC that drifting on The Ridge is causing big problems and they've decided to send out a gritter with a snow plough to deal with it. Know doubt it left Lewes not long ago but the drivers shift is about to come to an end and so will be returning to base

usual l0 - 15 min journey to drop wife off at work and daughter at school took 55 mins. Got back to work cleared and gritted our road and it's now fully covered again. Been constant heavy - fine stuff (at times larger flakes) but boy is it sticking to everything. think I'll admit defeat and retreat back to home for a warm up!

heavy stuff coming down in Hastings and has given a nice top up to what remaind from this time last week.

extremely gusty here on the sussex coast, average wind speed at the mo is 21mph with a gust high of 53mph. Pressure down to 993hPa. Think the christmas lights hanging from the gutter outside might be all over the place in the morning!

10cms in Hastings, roads around the town are a no go and virtually all schools are shut. Typical, I've got to get to Gatwick for 11am

not much more than 2cm here but the roads are terrible. Even though the amounts haven't been huge it sounds like travel around Sussex is not good with loads of accidents and stuck traffic (Gritter stuck in Wivelsfield (near Burgess Hill)).