La Crosse Technology 724-1409 Wireless Rain Station, Black

I had a La Crosse rain gauge that worked fine from 2018 till 2023. When that one stopped working, I bought this unit—very similar looking to my first unit. The base station stopped working after about 3 months. After some back and forth with Customer Service, they sent me a new unit, same model. This one worked OK for maybe a month. Then stopped. The rain collector is not clogged with leaves and the collection buckets move properly. So I guess the problem is that the collector isn’t sending signal or the base station isn’t receiving one. Either way, this unit is worthless. I’m giving up on La Crosse. Quality control is not good. On their website, it looks like La Crosse is out of the stand alone rain gauge business. Now they are pushing high cost weather stations for your roof. But they still use the same method for measuring rain. I’d stay away from those for sure.

Performs very well. Battery life in outdoor unit only lasts a couple of months; would be nice if they lasted longer. Would recommend.

WORKS GREAT VERY ACCURATE BUT THE INDOOR TEMP DISPLAY IS VERY SMALL AND HARD TO READ FROM A DISTANCE.

These La Crosse rain gauges clearly have a finite life, so rather than spend twice the price for one that hooks up with my La Crosse weather station, I got this. It's working well, and is about as easy as it comes to set up, but the accuracy suffers the same defect as any other teeter totter gauge. When the first rain hits, it takes about .10 to .15 inches of rain to just get the thing moving. After that, it's quite accurate. So when I got my first 1.65 inches of rain, it showed 1.5 inches. But when I got my next 0.60 inches shortly thereafter, it measured 0.60. There is one feature I would have loved to see, and that's a push button light for the LCD, so I could easily see it in the dark without turning on any lights. But that said, the LCD is very good - easy to see from virtually any angle, which is nice.

This wireless digital rain gauge has NEVER worked as it should. If I'm lucky, it will record 50% of actual rainfall. I have two other "old school" rain gauges and they are both consistent with each other on rainfall. The owner's manual for this wireless unit states that it can be calibrated by adjusting two screws under the tilting rocker. It even shows a picture of the two screws and how much to turn them. The problem is, on this unit, THERE ARE NO SCREWS UNDER THE TILTING ROCKER!!! I called their toll-free support number and had to leave a message for them to call me back. Four days later, they got around to returning my call when I was not near the phone and they left me a voicemail telling me to call them back (presumably to leave them another message that they would respond to four days later). I simply cannot recommend this product or the team that supports it to anyone.