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.

Easy to install, Accurate results

Not only did this product just not work, but the instructions included with it are a generic set not actually designed for this particular unit, and the interface isn’t very user friendly (have to remove the display from the wall to move between readings, and the instructions provide little to no explanation of what the readings actually mean. I would recommend spending a little more money and going with a more user friendly unit. I also emailed the company for trouble shooting about the unit and several weeks later have yet to receive a response.

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.

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