Connectivity Issues - Davis Vantage Vue

[WCDev]

Hi Bill,
Well, never say 'never'    but there are a lot of variables, not all of them under my control.

Thanks for the updated report 

[breno]

I've suffered this problem for nearly two years now so it's awesome to finally have it sorted.  I have an Australian unit.  Since the update I now get 1 comms error every 10000 good data.

[WCDev]

Good to know, thanks for the report breno.

[breno]

I've just updated my Vantage Vue console firmware to version 3 which apparently beefs up the internal communications from console to logger.  Lets see if you can get down to Zero now.

[KeithC]

When I had this same problem ferrite clamps completely cure it - permanently. Ten of them end to end from computer to console.

[breno]

No change to the 1 in 10000 good data rate with the latest firmware but that is fine with me.  Ever since Stu weaved his magic the comms have been rock solid in comparison.  I used to get 2-3 coms to station fail emails a day and a whole swag of -73.3 dewpoint readings on wunderground but not any more. 

Just out of interest Stu, what was different with the US version of the Vue and the UK/Australia/Metric version that was returning so many coms errors?

[staze]

Just out of interest Stu, what was different with the US version of the Vue and the UK/Australia/Metric version that was returning so many coms errors?

Second this. Also, I'm using the serial weatherlink hooked to a keyspan 19HS, and get about one com error per 10k as well. Was actually curious why I was getting them and found this thread.

I don't have any ferrites on the serial cable, so I might try that, but I figured a 0.01% error is not exactly a problem. Would be cool to eliminate the errors, but hey, it's still much better than my previous LaCrosse.