AcuRite Wireless Rain Gauge with Self-Emptying Rain Collector with Rainfall History, Alerts, and Current Date and Time (02446M)

This is a good unit. It's very accurate, easy to set up and inexpensive. The collection bucket is very useful - it sel-empties so just put it down somewhere and forget it. The range back to the base station is good as well. Very happy for how well this works.

I have tried 2 other types of electronic rain gauges and this is the only one that consistently works. The only issues is I have to open it up and get the spiders out. They will take up residence and tied down the mechanism with spider webs. Seems to be mostly the small jumping spiders.Great rain gauge.

This is a pretty cool product, it was easy to assemble, easy to set up. The only thing is it's kind of hard in my opinion to calibrate. The user guide tells you to poke a pinhole in a cup and let it slowly trickle to calibrate the rain guage. It says once the cup is empty, the monitor should read "close to" a certain number.... How close though, I'm not sure. It took a couple of tries to get it close to what it was supposed to be.

This rain gauge works perfectly, until the spiders discover that the tipping cups are a perfect place for their nests. I’ll then the gauge stops working. I fought this every week or so for a year. Finally I defeated the spiders thanks to my wife. She generously donated a nude stocking to end the spider fight.My outside unit sits on a deck railing. I removed it and put the whole gauge into the stocking all the way to the toe. Then cut it off a few inches above the top of the unit. I pushed the stocking down to allow the top to be removed so I could attach it back on the deck rail. It was tricky getting the top back on so stocking is on the outside of the unit so all lower side and bottom openings are covered, except the open top. It’s been months and no spiders. Not pretty, but effective.

Down to 1 star. Long story made short: Fiddled with calibration once again, tested the batteries (all good), totally reset the inside unit, and put it back in service. It rained the next day, glass rain gauge showed 2” of rain, AcuRite showed 0.3”. AcuRite gauge now resides in the recycle bin awaiting pick up. I’m wondering if all the people giving glowing reviews really know if the readings they are seeing are at all accurate.Good concept, easy set-up but questionable accuracy & lousy life.I would like to give this 3-1/2 stars, but that's not possibleI purchased this rain gauge in January 2003 (which puts it well beyond the return window). I went through the tedious procedure of calibrating it when it arrived and as it turned it was very close to the 1.68” number you are supposed to see so I put it service without any adjustment needed. The outside unit (rain gauge) is about 60’ from the inside display and there was no trouble in the two units connecting. For the last nine months or so, I thought I was getting super accurate readings, but to my dismay, it turned out I wasn’t.Living in Southwest Florida, we get the inevitable afternoon thunderstorms. We had two significant ones last week and my super accurate AcuRite rain gauge said there had been a total of just over 5”. HOWEVER, my next door neighbor who has one of those totally unsophisticated stick-in-the -ground glass gauges said he had over 8”.This prompted me to do two things. One, buy one of those unsophisticated glass gauges that you have to go outside to check which I did for about $13.00, and two, recalibrate my AcuRite gauge. After about five attempts of doing the 20 minute or so drip test, I was able to get it to read 1.70” which is within 1% and I figured that was close enough. The real test came the following day. We had rain and mu AcuRite showed .6”, but the outside glass gauge which is about 3 feet from the AcuRite showed 1”. My conclusion is that there is something wrong in the mechanism (at least mine) which can handle the drip, drip, drip, of the calibration test, but not a downpour that produces an inch of rain in 10 minutes which is not uncommon in our location..Pros: Easy to set up, like the concept of being able to see rain amounts without going outside, like being able to see today, yesterday, year-to-date etc.Cons: I’m a bit suspicious of the longevity/accuracy per the above.

This is a replacement for a rain guage I had to empty to read how much rain there had been. With this, I don't even have to go outside and empty it! It simply collects and measures the rain, and drains itself. I read the amount it has rained so for each day -- from indoors! It keeps track of how much it has rained year-to-date and so far this month.Love it!!

Don't have to go outside to read it. Works quite well

My unit had quality control issues. The buckets didn't move freely because a plastic piece on the "axle" was assembled incorrectly and made the bucket piece too wide to sit properly between the pivot points. Additionally, by design, the unit seems to only transmit the current rainfall once a minute, but that is regardless of how much rain it measures. So it will use up power even during a drought, but equally, not give you more updates than once a minute during a torrential downpour. The display is fine, but in my opinion, it is a bit large and cluttered. Most of the time, all you want is recent rainfall. If you bought this device, then you probably already have something monitoring temperature and maybe other sensors. I don't need another clock, and I'd rather have a button to see historical totals for weekly/monthly/etc. It is an acceptable value for what it is if your unit doesn't have QC problems like mine. Three stars because of the QC issue. It would have been four stars if it worked correctly out of the box.