Hairs on my arms as detector have worked well so far Jaime Solorza
On Jul 18, 2017 7:26 PM, "Chuck McCown" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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-light >> ning-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 > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/fwchristian> <http://facebook.com/packetflux> > <http://twitter.com/@packetflux> > >
