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WeatherCat => WeatherCat Feature Requests => Topic started by: schwab on April 21, 2013, 02:54:35 AM

Title: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: schwab on April 21, 2013, 02:54:35 AM

Any chance an upcoming version of WeatherCat will include Lightning Detection?

Weather Display has this feature for the 1-wire detector.

http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/Lightning-Detector.html (http://www.hobby-boards.com/store/products/Lightning-Detector.html)

http://www.carterlake.org/lightningdetector_1-wire.php (http://www.carterlake.org/lightningdetector_1-wire.php)

Thanks.

Title: Re: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: WCDev on April 21, 2013, 09:41:05 AM

Added to feature request list - thanks for the suggestion  [tup]

Title: Re: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: dfw_pilot on October 03, 2018, 11:35:59 PM

Quote from: WCDev on April 21, 2013, 09:41:05 AM

Added to feature request list - thanks for the suggestion  [tup]

Bumpity bump bump

Title: Re: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: xairbusdriver on October 04, 2018, 01:18:47 AM

blitzortung.org (http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php?map=30)... "Fireworks for your Mac!" Of course, those detectors and their reporting hardware are rather expensive.

I also like the local radar display via Wunderground (as long as it lasts...), it's main problem is the built-in delay, but the forecast track and speed are a big help. Of course, it's not much help if one does not have the display available; driving, shopping, etc. I'm not sure how the one-wire system would help if it doesn't also have accurate direction info and that is mainly a product of the size and strength of the cumulonimbus(es) movement. As you know, the fact that lightening has been detected in one place is not very good at predicting where the next strike will occur. That's why I always added another ten miles to the SOP distances! ThU32:-) [rolleyes2]

Looks like another project for our "in-house" electronics guru (and his Dad [Reinhard])!

Title: Re: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: dfw_pilot on October 04, 2018, 01:35:31 AM

Haha, yes. At 500 knots, I'm always happy to go an extra 10 miles or so.

I'd love to have something like a map and strike indicator on my website. Time and money I guess.

dfw

Title: Re: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: wurzelmac on October 05, 2018, 11:46:49 AM

Quote from: xairbusdriver on October 04, 2018, 01:18:47 AM

Looks like another project for our "in-house" electronics guru (and his Dad [Reinhard])!

Very interesting... indeed!  [interesting]

@schwab:
Why not doing it via Synthetic Channel?

Title: Re: Lightning Detector --> Future Feature?
Post by: schwab on December 08, 2019, 01:10:20 PM

Hopefully considering adding the Blitzortung Lightning Detectors to WeatherCat will be considered for new WC versions

Here's a map of this network:

http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php (http://en.blitzortung.org/live_lightning_maps.php)