Sorry I dropped the ball on this one - I'm a little late! Almost 2 YEARS to be exact!!
I appreciate the responses - I must not have my settings correct, because I never knew they were posted.
Anyway ... it's been almost 2 years, and I never touched that reed switch! No idea what the problem was, but it hasn't occurred since! Must've been a stick, a piece of ice, or a droplet of water in the switch ... or the tipping buckets were stuck right where the magnet triggers the switch, and vibration from the wind made it as if it was tipping 3x per second or something - who knows?!?
Thankfully the repair didn't cost me a dime, but it did cost me my 9 year prior history stored in the station. The unit became logic locked, presumably from the excess data - whenever I would accidentally get into the annual, or monthly rainfall totals, the unit would freeze up. Getting it back up & receiving signals from the ISS was an exercise in anger management. Sometimes it would be down for days. I'd have to keep yanking the batteries, waiting a bit, reinstall the batteries, then jump through the setup screen, THEN, MAYBE it would start to work.
This was SUPER aggravating. What I ended up doing, since I had nothing to lose at this stage (besides the data I forgot to write down first for annual rainfall totals - probably because I couldn't access it, now that I think about it), I did a hard reset: WIND, 2ND & CLEAR (hold until "CLEARING NOW" appears). Voila - fixed! Lost some data that became corrupted from the excess memory, but I have the majority of the data written down - that was a chore, too.
Anyway, she's been back to normal since the reset. Did that maybe a month after my first post here. So far so good!
I'll finish my post with shots of the screen from just 5 days apart. Welcome to New England, lol.