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| System Blue 19.5 PCB |
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Posted by: k2ors - 2022-04-11, 14:50 - Forum: General Discussion
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Hi,
I have a System Blue PCB 19.5.
I followed the instructions for 19.4 and removed the onboard voltage regulator. Is there an external regulator that is required or should I have left the onboard regulator on?
Is 19.5 a good functioning board? I can't find references to it on the web site, a friend in Massachusetts obtained a System Blue at approximately the same time as I received mine and was never able to get it to work and he is a very experienced electrical engineer.
Thank you,
Warren K2ORS
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| Detector Coverage For Western Australia |
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Posted by: Smithy - 2022-03-01, 12:36 - Forum: General Discussion
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Hello All;
I'm just new to Blitzortung but have been operating my own weather station for a few years now (enthusiast - data send to WOW Weather). As you may know Western Australia is a fairly large chunk of land (2.6 million sq Km), yet there are only 5 detectors in total, all located within a small area in and around the capital - Perth. I live about 1600kn north of the capital in a small town near Karratha (in the Pilbara). The north west of our state has some of the most active storm/lightening areas around - a weekend in February a few weeks back recorded some 2 million lightening strikes in the Gascoyne, Pilbara and Kimberly regions.
I have recently ordered a Blue system - and joined the 6000+ waiting list. Hopefully things will move alone fairly quickly as views from our porch on pretty much any given night in summer reminds me there is a hell of strike data that is just waiting to be captured!
Also just putting it out there to anyone else who lives in this region that is also interested in setting up a detector is these parts...please feel free to introduce yourself and have a chat!!
Regards
Smithy
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Keraunic activity over Mainz/Frankfurt |
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Posted by: Elektrofeldmeter - 2022-01-26, 16:38 - Forum: Website, Maps and Applications
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Hi,
I was looking for some hotspots in order to take pictures of lightnings (taking all possible security measure of course) and I could not find any good way of accessing to this information.
I wrote a script in order to extract the CSV data and to stich them temporally and I reprocessed the data afterward into Mathematica. Doing so I managed to generate the attached pictures.
For those interested in local density plot.
Below the script written in Python using the Selenium library. This script needs to be edited in order to perform your task, you need to define: - The location of your chromedriver
- The download path
- Your login on Blitzortung
- Your password on Blitzortung
- The start date for the data collection
- The min/max latitude and longitude of the area of interest
Code: #!/usr/bin/python3
import time
import datetime
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
path_download = ""
path_chromedriver = "" #were chromedriver is stored download at https://chromedr
iver.chromium.org/downloads
login = "" #your login
pwd = "" #your path
start_year = 2015 #when to start
start_month = 6 #idem
start=day = 1 #idem
lon_min = 49.2 #longitude min
lon_max = 50.2 #longitude max
lat_min = 7.8 #latitude min
lat_max = 8.9 #latitude max
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() ;
prefs = {"download.default_directory" : path_download}
options.add_experimental_option("prefs",prefs);
driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = path_chromedriver, chrome_options=op
tions)
wait = WebDriverWait(driver, 30);
driver.get("https://www.blitzortung.org/en/login.php")
time.sleep(1.)
driver.find_element_by_xpath("/html/body/div[2]/div/p[3]/span/span[5]").click()
driver.find_element_by_name("login_username").send_keys("EMP_22")
time.sleep(0.2)
driver.find_element_by_name("login_password").send_keys("EFM_27")
time.sleep(2.)
driver.find_element_by_class_name("center").click()
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='submit']").click()
date_start = datetime.datetime(start_year, start_month, start_day, 0, 0, 0)
for i in range(2000):
date_end = date_start+datetime.timedelta(days=2)
if date_end > datetime.datetime.now():
exit()
epoch_start = int(date_start.timestamp())
epoch_end = int(date_end.timestamp())
http_address = "https://www.blitzortung.org/en/archive_data.php?stations_us
ers=0&selected_numbers=*"
http_address += "&end_date=" + str(epoch_end)
http_address += "&end_time=" + str(0)
http_address += "&start_date=" + str(epoch_start)
http_address += "&start_time=" + str(0)
http_address += "&rawdata_image=0"
http_address += "&north=" + str(lon_max)
http_address += "&west=" + str(lat_min)
http_address += "&east=" + str(lat_max)
http_address += "&south=" + str(lon_min)
http_address += "&map=0&width_orig=640&width_result=640&agespan=60&frames=12
&delay=100&last_delay=1000&show_result=1"
driver.get(http_address)
driver.switch_to.frame(0)
#time.sleep(5.)
print(date_start)
print(date_end)
#filename_out = date_start.strftime("%Y%m%d")+"_"+date_end.strftime("%Y%m%d"
)+".csv.gz"
elt = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//a[contains(@href,'raw')]")#.get_attrib
ute('href'))
elt.click()
driver.switch_to.default_content();
time.sleep(0.5)
date_start = date_end
driver.close
driver.quit()
Best regards
Antoine
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| Any chance to get a station in Sardinia? |
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Posted by: prohu - 2022-01-22, 16:57 - Forum: General Discussion
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Dear all,
our no-profit organisation (www.sardegna-clima.it ) is very interested in installing a lightning station in centre Sardinia as the Western Mediterranean seems not very well covered.
I've already posted the interested on the relevant page but being "Italy" seems that we are not on a pretty well position...
I was wondering if there is any chance to get the equipment in a reasonable time.
Many thanks in advance.
Enrico
www.sardegna-clima.it
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