{"id":82,"date":"2023-01-03T09:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2023-01-03T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T14:40:22","slug":"cleaned-wh41-pm-2-5-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/cleaned-wh41-pm-2-5-sensor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleaned WH41 PM 2.5 sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wx.iayft.com\/yearpm.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ecowitt WH41 PM 2.5 detector dropped out in August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When reviewing my annual logs, I noticed the PM 2.5 detector, an Ecowitt WH41 model, dropped off in readings in August, and was pretty consistently low for the rest of the year. I visited the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wxforum.net\/index.php?topic=44019.msg448034#msg448034\" target=\"_blank\">WxForum and found an article<\/a> suggesting that the air chamber could be clogged and needed regular clearing. Sure enough, I took the device apart and found debris in side, and what might have been a thin leaf stem stuck in the fan. Cleaned and blown out, the device returned to service, readings immediately started to show more interesting behavior. Hope that fixes it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wx.iayft.com\/daypm.png\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Post-repair. NOTE: Not to the same scale as the graph above!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reviewing my annual logs, I noticed the PM 2.5 detector, an Ecowitt WH41 model, dropped off in readings in August, and was pretty consistently low for the rest of the year. I visited the WxForum and found an article suggesting that the air chamber could be clogged and needed regular clearing. Sure enough, I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/cleaned-wh41-pm-2-5-sensor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cleaned WH41 PM 2.5 sensor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10,12,11,9,8],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather-station","tag-ecowitt","tag-maintenance","tag-repair","tag-weather","tag-wx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.iayft.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}