You’re wanted in engineering!
The rain sensor on my Davis Instruments Vantage Pro 2 wireless weather station stopped reporting…right before the first major storm of the season. Of course :(.
The unit is pretty well designed, except that in climates like California where most of the year is dry the water channel for the rain sensor ends up getting clogged by spiderwebs and other insect crud. It would work much better if rain came more regularly throughout the year and cleaned out the initial “deposits” before they could grow to block the channel.
Cleaning it is simple but requires getting up onto the 2nd floor roof. I’d come up with a clever way to do that today that didn’t involve using my oversized extension ladder (difficult to maneuver and definitely contra-indicated for use during the start of a rainstorm :)).
Everything went fairly smoothly…up until the time I was climbing back up with the cleaned parts. Finagle decided to put in an appearance at that point, and I jostled them with my elbow. At which point they rolled off the 1st floor roof into the backyard, dropping about 15 feet in the process.
I recovered the larger of the two parts (fortunately undamaged). But the smaller one is buried in the bushes somewhere. Fortunately, it’s not immediately needed.
Too bad we can’t repeal Murphy’s Law (“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”). Or have Alito declare it null and void for some cockamamie reason.
I did learn one thing, though. Murphy’s Law is named after an actual engineer named Murphy.
