Full graph scale "counts" indicate a close, strong storm to the station
The Flash-to-Bang (F-B) Method requires no dedicated detector: only counting the time in seconds from seeing lightning’s flash, to seeing the associated thunder or bang. For each five seconds, lightning is one mile away. Thus, a F-B of 10 = 2 miles; 15 = 3 miles; 20 = 4 miles; etc.
Some lightning sensors have problems with electrical
interference this comes from electrical appliances that
produce noise. This sensor may produce false counts
Detector will be able to pick lightning counts up to 15 miles or more
Hobby boards 1 wire Lightning senor only records lightning counts
The number of strikes is increasing, as the storm gets
more intense, or that its getting closer , and more in range
The lightning sensor has been updated with a new circuit from hobby boards this will cut down the amount of interferencethis
12/06/2008
Weather data is based on amateur readings and should not be interpreted as being totally accurate.
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Some information on our new lightning radar system
The lightning strikes are received using a frame antenna set at 10 kHz. At this frequency range the lightning sends impulses over a range of several thousand kilometers. The antenna consists of a frame, around which wire is wound in multiple windings. The antenna measures the magnetic part of a wave and has the advantage that it is less sensitive to interfering electrical fields. With a single antenna, the lightning strike can be detected but the direction cannot be measured. For this reason a second identical antenna is mounted at 90 degrees to the first antenna. The direction can be calculated from the two signals measured. It is still not possible to say for certain that the lightning strike occurred at one direction, exactly opposite direction could also have been possible (+180 degrees). This is also due to the fact that we do not know if the lightning strike had a positive or negative charge. If you are working with a single station, a third antenna is therefore necessary to detect the charge and therefore the correct direction of the strike. A single station cannot be used to determine the exact position / distance of the strike. This can only be estimated frotherefore calculate the correct direction and the position / distance using only 2 antennasm the strength of the signal, since not all lightning strikes have the same energy. Lightning Radar works in a group of a number of stations and can
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