Lightning is one of the great forces of nature. The huge releases of electricity release detectable electromagnetic emissions, as you might expect. The team at the [LVL1 Hackerspace] put together a ...

Lightning is one of nature’s most intense and unpredictable forces, but thankfully, we have got technology to help us stay ahead of the storm. Lightning detectors are designed to pick up the ...

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Personal lightning detector? You mean, a long piece of metal tubing held high, so you’re the first to know when a storm is overhead? Hey, only kidding! Everybody knows it’s silly to wave metal around ...

Nokia software program analyzes radio waves to calculate the distance to the lightning and inform phone users of imminent strikes If you thought developers were running out of new applications to ...

It’s summertime in Houston and with very few exceptions, this is the time of year for thunderstorms nearly every day. Some are very small and isolated while at other times, whole lines of storms ...

Most digital multimeters have a sensitivity of 200 mV and in input impedance of 10 MR. With this information you can calculate that at full scale there will be a current of 20 nA (nano-ampères). In ...

Avidyne is also offering a lightning detector that generates a real-time map of color-coded hexagonal grids of lightning activity. The company says the TWX670—developed by the Avidyne Safety Systems ...

JACKSON TWP., N.J. (WPVI) -- After lightning struck and killed one man and injured 14 others at an archery range in New Jersey, many are thankful to be alive, but the victims say there was no warning.