Environmental sensors

The rain gauge

A tipping-bucket rain gauge that records every millimetre of rainfall and sends it straight to your SoilSense dashboard, next to your soil moisture.

The rain gauge

Tell rain from irrigation

A tipping bucket tips once for each millimetre of rain and counts the tips. Logged alongside soil moisture, it shows whether a jump in moisture came from the sky or the system — so you can adjust irrigation with confidence.

What the rain gauge gives you

1 mm resolution

Each tip of the bucket records a millimetre of rainfall for a clear running total.

On one dashboard

Rainfall sits next to soil moisture, so cause and effect are easy to read.

Simple and rugged

A proven tipping-bucket mechanism with a 50 cm² collector, built to sit outdoors.

Rain gauge technical specifications

  • Tower Rain Gauge with PCB 9602
  • Rain collector, orifice = 50 cm²
  • PCB No. 9602 has a terminal strip and two reed switches. The reed switches are NO – normally open and NC – normally closed.
  • Resolution: 1 mm rain per tip
  • Calibration: 5 grams per tip
  • Accuracy: +/- 5%

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