Setup Mode
Screen 12: Rain Collector
The tipping bucket in the Vantage Pro2 rain collector has been calibrated at the factory to measure 0.01'' of rain with each tip. The ISS comes equipped with a metric adapter that, once installed, takes 0.2 mm readings for every tip of the bucket. Determine which measurement you want your rain col- lector to take and configure your console and rain collector accordingly.
Screen 12: Rain Collector Settings
To configure your console for inch measurements:
1.Press the up and down arrows to display the .01'' setting.
2.Press DONE to use the selected setting and move to the next screen. To configure your console for 0.2 mm measurements:
1.Press the up and down arrows to display the 0.2 mm setting.
2.Press DONE to use the selected setting and move to the next screen.
Note: | See the Integrated Sensor Suite Manual for instructions on installing the metric rain |
| adapter. The 0.1mm setting does not provide correct rain measurements with either |
| the standard measurement or the metric adapter installed in the rain bucket. |
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Note: | If necessary, the console can be configured to calculate the 0.01'' measurements and |
| convert these to metric measurements, rounding to the nearest 0.1 mm or can be |
configured to calculate the 0.2 mm measurements and convert them to the U.S. stan- dard, rounding to the nearest .01''.
To Display Rain in Metric Units on the Console
Even if you configure to read 0.2 mm measurements set in screen 12 of the Setup Mode, you have to configure your Current Weather Mode to display the same readings. To display metric rain readings in the Current Weather Mode, once you have completed or exited the Setup Mode:
1. Press RAINYR to display the current rain rate.
Selecting Metric units for one rain variable also sets all the other rain variables to Metric units.
RAINYR
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