1-Wire Lightning Detector - My attempt

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Hello,
First I’d like to say that this is my first post (yay for me) :smiley:

Anyways, I’ve been up all night swifting through treads, looking at comments, reading diagrams and I think I’m ready for the real deal.
I ordered the parts on July 31st and right now the status is “Processing”, they should be either:
1.) Shipped today and arrive tomorrow
or
2.) Shipped early early and arrive late tonight, my bet is on #1.
I am horribly ecstatic, almost to the point I wanna pop! 8O
Back to the point, I will keep this thread up to date and will post my findings and or tips. So any building tips from you guys would be much appreciated (I.E., antenna build, ground, copper wire, insulated vs not etc), and thanks in advance!

-Jason

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Hi Jason and welcome to the forum.
I used a 1-Wire lightning detector a few years ago with the supplied antenna and that seemed to work OK.
Obviously the longer the better and the clearer the “view” it has the better as well.

HERE’S what I used for a housing for mine, although I had the older version of the board but you get the idea. :wink:

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Very nice Budgie! =D>
I was thinking of integrating Carter’s “grill grate” antenna with that same junction box design, the only fault in the design is having the exposed metal (the grill grates) at the top of the pvc pipe (or equivalent). I think if I cock off the opening at the top it should be fine, and the grill grates themselves are stainless steel, meaning they wont rust.

OH! I got on a few minutes ago and the status says its now been shipped! :multi: :multi:

-Jason

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Disappointed that it didn’t ship today. I am excepting tomorrow.

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so it got here today :smiley:
promptly after it got here, I looked at it a moment… scrambled to find a 9v, found one, put it in and had a “oh my god this is awesome” moment. than I moved on and scrambled to find a RJ45 cable… and soon I realized “NO!” - my spare RJ45 is 6,000 miles away over in europe 8O

sooo I gotta go buy another thing :roll:, more updates coming soon.

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That’ll give you time to fit the PCB in it’s case and mount the antenna then. :wink:

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haha I gotta go to lowes and get that too haha. so I got a RJ45 and now I had to order YET ANOTHER thing, which is the RJ11/RJ45 adapter… and that should be here in 2 or so days.

so many things have happened on this project lol. but after the adapter gets here I can put everything together and into the case, mount the antenna and test it all.

more updates once I get the adapter

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Any news on this. I am going through the same things

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Me too.

Lightning & Solar

Going trough the waiting period:

Your order has been updated to the following status.

New status: Processing


Unfortunately I’m all the way over in Europe, so it may take a while.

Flemming

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I forgot to get the rj11 to rj45 cable so I tried cutting the end off of a phone cord and connecting the wires to the screw terminals, but that didn’t work. I just went online and ordered the cable to make my life a lot easier

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Your order has been updated to the following status. Shipped
And I remembered to order the converter cable - hehe

Flemming - waiting anxiously :slight_smile:

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Lucky me.

It seems my little package came on a very fast flight from the States.

Arrived today. Now some tinkering awaits as I would like to put the AQI sensor on my board as well. See herehttp://discourse.weather-watch.com/p/409950

Flemming

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It has probably been answerred many times already, but

if you have a lightning sensor and a solar, solar is best placed at at the end of the line, right?

Got my sensors a few days back. The solar is in action, tried to do as the FAQ said, but I’m not sure how or why it works.

Did the right tings, NO reaction from WD. Tried other things and suddenly it worked. I have no idea why or how, BUT it’s working now.

If I go on trying to connect the lightning sensor,what is going to happen? I’m worried…

It would be nice, if there was a FAQ up-to-date hint hint.

I know most of the old guard has moved away from 1-wire lightning, but hopefully some you remember a little.

Flemming

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The solar sensor isnt as picky as the lightening is. It doesnt really matter where the solar sensor is, as long as the Lightening is First in line.

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Hi Flemming,

Here is what I have for my 1-Wire setup:

Computer->USB Adapter->power injector->lightning detector->solar sensor->UV sensor

We the “old guard” 1-Wire users, have found that putting the lightning detector first in the daisy chain works the best. But, if you are using a hub, it should not be an issue where you put the sensors/detectors.

Make sure also, that when you get it all working, only the 1-Wire program is running correctly then do the save without WD running. That way, all of your 1-Wire parameters should be saved correctly or until Brian fixes the save issue.

Hope that this helps a bit.

–Stan Y.
Maui, Hawaii

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I have now mounted my lightning sensor - first in line with the solar following. 6’ of grounding pole hammered into the very wet ground.

It seems to work - almost to well. I now have my WDL page reporting thunder and lightning. http://www.svanekevej.dk/wxlive.php

Where do I go and see what’s been reported from WD?

Flemming

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Hi,

In WD, on the left bottom, next to the Data Quality and to the right you should see a number. Click on that number and you should see a lightning graph.

Hope that this helps.

–Stan Y.
Maui, Hawaii