The Advantage and Disadvantage of Using Tipping Bucket For Rain Measurement

            Rain measurement is usually used to know how much water that drops from cloud until earth surface which is considered flat and impermeable or also called precipitation and expressed as the water level. The unit of rainfall is millimeters. Rainfall can be measured using a measuring instrument rainfall, one of which is Tipping bucket. Tipping bucket is the automatic rainfall measuring instrument which can display rainfall data directly in computer. But there are Advantages and disadvantage of using Tipping bucket.

             Tipping bucket measure the rainfall data directly and display the data on interface program software in computer and its make the observer doesn’t need to go to the instruments field. And then, the rain character (Light, Medium, or Heavy) can be determined easily. Tipping bucket also have unlimited Rainfall capacity. Rainfall Output data Tipping bucket can be connected by wireless to connect the interface program in far range.

            The disadvantage of this sensor is need a system that make control of its work and addition components .it’s like power supply, micro controller, and connection module. There is the rest of rainfall in bucket which has not fallen and it is make the data have a small deviation if not drained after the last rainfall measurement. 

            Based on the above mentioned cases, the use of Tipping bucket for the measurement of precipitation is pretty good with a lot of benefits and ease of retrieval of data. The disadvantages can be resolved with the good use and install additional components as needed. And perform the measurement method correctly to reduce the deviation data.