Category Archives: Lightning detector

A Storm!

Posted on July 29, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

Had a storm come through the area when I was at work. Luckily I had the Tautic board running and collecting data. I have just spent some time processing the data and I am now rather hopeful that this might … Continue reading →

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AS3935 “Striker” software update

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

I was notified my Striker code on GitHub had a defect (bug). The contributor posted a patch that I have implemented.  You can find the updated code at www.github.com/skyesweeney/striker

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SUNDAR update

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

Been working on my SUNDAR in what little free time I have these days. Last night my Digikey order came in and I was able to get the dual channel digital potentiometer working. This will be used for a software … Continue reading →

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Lightning detector update (AS3935)

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

In a previous comment, I was informed that I had a bug in the software I posted on GitHub. Seems that I forgot to implement the 2 millisecond delay before reading the interrupt service register. Not sure what happened as … Continue reading →

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Not feeling the love

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

It is 12:30 at night and I was woken up by a thunderstorm raging outside. Heard the rain, saw the flashes, and heard the thunder. Went downstairs to look at the output of the AS3935 based lighting detector.  Dang thing … Continue reading →

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AS3935 code is on GitHub

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

I took my first jump into GitHub as a contributor. I put my current AS3935 based application called “Striker” into the repository. You can find it here: https://github.com/SkyeSweeney/Striker This should now get me off the hook for several of you … Continue reading →

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Bug on AS3935

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

After three weeks of banging my head against a brick wall, I confirmed last night that the AS3935 has an issue with the I2C interface. There is an issue with the chip that prevents reading register zero without violating the … Continue reading →

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AS3935 and register zero

Posted on March 17, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

The more I bang my head against this chip, the more I am certain there are ‘issues’ with it. I can now read and write every register with amazing repeatability except register zero. This register refuses to be read or … Continue reading →

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AS3935 lightning detector update

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

I was having problems with reliable communications with the lightning detector chip over the I2C bus. Sometimes I would read a register and it would not be at all what I was expecting. The situation was during calibration when I … Continue reading →

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Another excercise in Yak Shaving

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Skye Sweeney

I have been having problems with the I2C interface on a chip I have been playing with. Since I do not have an I2C bus analyzer (nor can I afford one!), I have been using my scope to decode bus … Continue reading →

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