When people make crazy claims, I'm going to refute them.
If you have problems with your gear, send it back.
I've made that statement several times on the Acurite forum.
And yes, there are a lot of people who simply don't understand their hardware and how to position it.
I'd say folks are exaggerating when they make claims they can fix Acurite's "design problem", but can't figure out how to get to the circuit board.
I wanted to say your posts on the motors, and particularly your last post in that topic at acurite was very well stated. I still seriously doubt the motor is the issue, as today my sensor again performed almost perfectly even though there was peek a boo sunshine on and off all day. I believe the voltage regulators are causing the current to the motors to drop off at times and the temp is then spiking. Solar panels would not do that when there is full sunshine on the panel In my experience anyway... From my observations, when the outside temp is below 70 mainly between 50 and 70, is where the dual panel has serious issues. Above 70, it seems to handle those conditions much better, and the temp only goes over about 2 or 3 degrees. Below 70 it can run 7 - 10 degrees higher than ambient, and fluctuate up and down with full sunshine on the sensor.