Does the Rain Gage work in direct sunlight?
Yes. The Rain Gage rejects the effects of sunlight using optics, filtering circuitry and software. Normal fixed installations will be completely unaffected by sunlight. The Rain Gage can be, however, affected by extremely bright, very rapidly changing sharp shadows. Such shadows are generated, for example, by placing the Rain Gage on a moving vehicle and driving it under overhanging trees at, say 30 MPH. The effect is to decrease the sensitivity. The RG-11 compensates for this decrease in sensitivity in software, and the output of the Rain Gage is largely unaffected.
