messypotamia
New Member
My 1-wire bus is working fine and decided to add lightning detection. Just got HB's current lightning detector. So I followed the comment on their website and mounted it in side a short piece of PVC pipe. Both ends of the pipe have a cap on them with a hole drilled thru; the top has a simple automotive telescoping antenna on it with the conductor attached to the ANT connection and the GND connection is attached to a ground pin on one of the structure's electrical outlets. Both the Cat5 and the gnd wire come thru the bottom cap's hole.
The building is an isolated metal roof/metal siding boathouse. There is no heavy industry, no broadcast antennas, no electrical fences, etc. around.
The PVC device isn't permanently mounted outside yet, it's laying horizontally just up in the plastic eaves under the roof. While I realize that area is not optimum, I would expect that temporary placement to be electrically quiet and not causing false strike counts. I got 10 strike counts so far in a few hours yesterday. There isn't any lightning within hundreds of miles of northern Alabama today.
How critical is it that it be mounted outside, vertical, with its own independent ground driven into the earth (or in this case, a stationary boathouse on permanent piers, into the lake bottom under the boathouse's dock!)
I'd appreciate anyone's ideas on what might be causing this and how to correct it.
Thanks,
mp
PS apology this was posted accidentally in Hello World also, didn't realize HB posts go here ...
The building is an isolated metal roof/metal siding boathouse. There is no heavy industry, no broadcast antennas, no electrical fences, etc. around.
The PVC device isn't permanently mounted outside yet, it's laying horizontally just up in the plastic eaves under the roof. While I realize that area is not optimum, I would expect that temporary placement to be electrically quiet and not causing false strike counts. I got 10 strike counts so far in a few hours yesterday. There isn't any lightning within hundreds of miles of northern Alabama today.
How critical is it that it be mounted outside, vertical, with its own independent ground driven into the earth (or in this case, a stationary boathouse on permanent piers, into the lake bottom under the boathouse's dock!)
I'd appreciate anyone's ideas on what might be causing this and how to correct it.
Thanks,
mp
PS apology this was posted accidentally in Hello World also, didn't realize HB posts go here ...