I had a storm scope (sferics) that displayed on a moving map in an airplane.
It was OK I guess, you could see the storm with your eyes just about as good. But then when Nexrad radar became available, I never looked at the storm scope data again. The radar is soo good. Red== Dead, Yellow==Scare a Fellow, Green == color of the passengers and their puke. Lesson was, stay out of the colored areas on the map. It had snow and Ice too. Pink and Blue as I recall. Stay out of color is the goal. From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 6:47 PM To: af Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Just in time Among the things which have reached proof of concept stage but I haven't developed further is a lightning detector which uses a commodity distance-to-strike IC to provide lighting data via SNMP and Web. I glanced at my list and it's in the pile of stuff to do after the next generation of base unit comes out, the idea being that you can definitely do some interesting things if you known lighning is in the area to help you better weather the storm. Not sure if or when it will ever see the light of day (there's quite a few projects like this which are effectively ideas which have progressed to the verified it is possible stage, but no further). On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:36 PM, David Milholen <[email protected]> wrote: Here is what ya need https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/runtimeprojects/a-lightning-detector-for-arduino-9f679c I have a few of these guys in play doing my tower light monitoring and control at our sites. I got a little inquisitive about how to detect lightning before it hits and with some tweaks on the code of what I already have I now have a site that is bullet proof when a storm occurs. When It detects I have the AC and DC bank drop out for 30min and drop back in once the storm passes. If detection still occurs during that 30min that clock is reset. We do this only on 2 sites where towers do not have a ground or are poorly grounded where system ground is read above 25ohms On 7/18/2017 7:21 PM, Jaime Solorza wrote: Was on tower when I spotted this heading our way...off I go...put tools away quickly and loaded gear in truck...10 minutes later it hit with lightning , wind and rain... Jaime Solorza -- -- Forrest Christian CEO, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc. Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602 [email protected] | http://www.packetflux.com
