[time-nuts] Lightning Strike Site (Jim Lux)

[Alan Melia]

Come on fellas it can't be that difficult to input a pulse to the chip and 
measure the prop delay to the INT pin ....this is timenuts after all :-))

Alan
G3NYK
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:08 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Lightning Strike Site (Jim Lux)


> On 9/9/13 3:52 PM, Mark Sims wrote:
>> The AS3935 has an INT output pin that signals a detection.   You could 
>> monitor that.  The AS3935 is based upon an internal DSP processing the 
>> receiver output.  No telling how long between when the strike occurs and 
>> when INT is activated.
>
> I'd send a nice note to the folks in Austria who make the part and ask 
> them.
>
> I suspect, also, that you might be able to figure out some other lightning 
> sensor electronics: the Boltek unit wasn't all that complex, looking at 
> the PC board, but I didn't have a schematic.
>
>
>
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