Best Rain Gauge for Heavy Rainfall

The Neta 250mm Professional Rain Gauge consists of 2 cylinders. The smaller inner cylinder provides accuracy while the larger outer cylinder increases capacity. This rain gauge comes with stainless steel screws for easy installation and a rainfall chart for record keeping.

Except it does not come with mounting instructions.

The only instructions "on the box" are:-
The minimum distance needs to be at least twice the distance away from the tallest structure?

Ok so I measured the difference in height from the top of the gauge to the top of my shed roof.
2 meters.

Then I worked out how to mount it because it does not have pre-drilled holes.
Made sure it was at least 4 meters away from the shed.

This is how I installed it.

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0:00 Unboxing - working it out
1:47 Attach to post
4:14 Install post
5:52 Install complete
6:09 Reading the gauge

[eprohoda]

lik-you did splendid ! have a good day~🤚

[billbates]

Nice job! Lawn and garden are looking good!

[TigerCarpenter]

your whole place is so neat

in tropics we measure the rainfall using the 20 litre buckets with 30cm diameter. most of the time the buckets are full overnight. especially now that the monsoon is over our heads, we measure the rainfall by the level of water against your car. luckily I have Hilux with Tough Dog suspension, which is a few inches higher, and I have a snorkel, which allows my car to survive driving even when the water level is at your car windows. I could see hundreds of cars immobilised and practically irreparable after several days of continuous raining. the situation is very serious as we speak (Jan 2021)

nice mini project!

[bigt]

Like it, and happy new year by the way

[ray_c_yuen]

I replaced mine with a electronic rain gauge. It worked okay for a year, then started by not showing correct rainfall. I ended up buying another one of these.

[DeepishMoog]

Hello! Great video. We get sometimes 1-4 inches of rain per day here. I'm wondering if, although this may be a very accurate gauge, would it be a bother constantly measuring the overflow from the outer tube into the center measuring tube...since the inner tube doesn't hold much water, it appears. I've used a rather basic Acurite brand gauge mounted to fence post up to this point, but I think with occasional heavy wind another design would be benefitial. Perhaps I've not been getting accurate readings after all. Thanks in advance.

[LarrymanYT]

On the rain gauge, can you please show the actual measuring of the rain>? thank you.

[ourv]

'No mounting instructions...'
I guess they figger if you know how to use a raingauge you are smart enough to figger out how to hang it.

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