• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Davis Vantage PRO2 solar sensor

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Hey all,

I have a WS Davis VantagePRO2 including solar radiation sensor. With this extra sensor you are able to calculate also the sun duration, its actually just calculated time when solar radiation is above a threshold you choose.

So I am wondering if someone, who have these weather stations, could advice me which threshold is the optimal to set that I get at least approximate value for sun duration. I have it at 120W/m2 currently, but sun durations are too low compared to other stations around. If I set it to 0W/m2, then I get similar times, but its obvious that when its not totally cloudy I get like around 20W/m2 so it'd start calculating me sun duration. Other stations would report 0min.

Are there maybe any official WMO standards which have these thresholds set up? I know we cannot compare there amateur stations with professional instruments, but would be still nice to at least get closer to real values if it gives me a chance to calculate it.

Thanks for any help!
 
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