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MWS 9-5 Manual
6 Trouble Shooting
If the weather station is placed and mounted as described, there should be no problems in recor-
ding data.
When having problems with data transmission, you may decrease the Baud-rate or shorten the
cable. You should use low capacitive cable when using cable length over 15m (RS232).
Using the weatherstation in industrial environment can cause big problems in data transmission
or even storing in the logger, when disturbance scatters into the cable. In this case you should
use shielded cable or use RS422 Interface.
If the sensor has got any kind of malfunction (i.e. no windvalues, no rain measurement,...), you've
got the possibility to reset the Sensor without plugging off the cable. The command for resetting
the Sensor is
!*
. The Sensor then stops triggering the watchdog and a complete reset is performed
after 1.6 seconds. The Sensor now will startup in the same way like the cable is plugged in the
first time. For this the clock needs to be set again!
If there are unexplainably rain values like described in the desription of the precipitation sensor
above, you should mount a shield against wind swirls at the bottom of the weather station to
avoid unintentional tipping over of the bucket. Also take care that the mast cannot vibrate when
it is stormy!
(Further hints on the weather CD under FAQs.)
6.1 Fault Protocol File (16 bit versions)
Important in case of fault
Whenever you restart the software, all versions of the weather software later than V1.06 create a
protocol file of the data transmissions between PC and weather station. With DOS-versions this
file is called DIAGNOSE.LOG, with WINDOWS-versions DIAG_WS.LOG.
This file can help you, so do save it
in any case
, as it is overwritten whenever you restart the
soft ware.
Please see the files .DOC or .DOK too. You will find important new information on the MWS
9-5-software which is not yet in this manual.
6.2 Protocol-files (32 bit versions)
6.2.1 Log-file in case of error (ErrLog.txt)
Softwareversions for sensors without logger same or newer than V2.26 writea log-file (
ErrLog.
txt
) in case of errors (dataerrors or tranmission problems), in which the timepoint and kind of
the error is stored. Older versions displayed an error-message like
!p
or
data error
, which was
displayed permanently until the user clicked it away. This caused the problem that no further
data were written for the time the message was visible although the error did not exist any longer.
In version same or newer V2.26 also an error message appears, but this message is deleted auto-
matically when the error is removed. In this case an entry is written into the log-file.
6.2.2 Logfile when starting up (log.dat)
When the software for weatherstations and sensors with logger is started, the communications
between the computer and the weatherstation is stored in a log-file (
log.dat
). With this file you
may get important hints in case of problems.
Caution!
This log-file is overwritten each time, when the software is restarted. To keep this file,
store it in another place or rename it.
