Outdoor temperature sensor . . .`

Could it be displaying inside temp when the sensor is unplugged?

From:natchmo snipped-for-privacy@whooboy.com

If it's like my LaCrosse clock (it automatically sets the time according to radio broadcasts and projects the time on the ceiling with a small laser) it has a tiny hole for a paper clip reset on the back (right below and between the "SET" and "DISP" buttons). Does yours have such a reset?

It also sounds like someone close by might have a similar unit and you are reading the temperature from their unit although the registration procedure is supposed to avoid that. It seems as if you may have registered someone else's transmission. How close are the nearest neighbors? How big was the store you bought it in? I got mine at Target about two Christmases ago and I know they moved hundreds of them - and then stopped carrying them because there were so many returns.

If the sender was in a place where it got wet, it could have shorted out and gone hinky. The remotes aren't nearly as well sealed as the RadioShack weather sensors or the X-10 outdoor Hawkeye sensors. IIRC, they aren't sealed at all.

Mine usually goes blank where the outdoor temp. is supposed to be. It sounds like yours is reading a room temperature somewhere (put another thermometer next to it to make sure it's not YOUR room temperature).

If you're is like mine, there's an annoying and painfully specific "registration" sequence. They also require you to set the time manually at first, which, in my mind, pretty much defeats the purpose of buying a clock "you never have to set!"

-- Bobby G.

Thanks Bruce and Robert for the suggestions.

The clock has an "inside" temperature as well. The inside temp seems to be in synch with what it feels like it should be; sometimes if the sun hits it it says 90 degrees inside.Like you said, I must be getting a signal from somewhere else for the outside temp, and the sensor must be inside a house.

Thanks for the replies.

natchmo

Our wireless thermometer can pick up our neighbor's transmitter as well as our own.

Reminds me of something funny that happened. Our receiver has a "freeze alert" feature that sounds an alarm when the transmitter on channel 1 getts near 32 degrees. So, I set my transmitter to channel

2, since it's usually around freezing in the winter. So, it worked fine for a while, until one cool night, the thing started beeping. (And, it's in our bedroom.) That's when I found our our neighbor has one too, and his transmitter was set to channel 1.

John