How Storms Are Tracked (DIY Lightning Detector Hack)
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- Turn on your notifications, because the era of storm prediction and planning is upon us! This simple build can detect lightning strikes from up to 10 miles away, or, detect if you've stood up from your chair too quickly. Warning: stormy with a chance of science.
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Very cool! Didn't even cross my mind that this was possible but it makes sense given the massive amount of energy lightning has. Now we know before the thunder.
Thanks Jake! What kicked off this project, was a massive lightning storm Seattle had three weeks ago. It was the largest electrical storm my area had ever seen - some 2000 ground strikes throughout the night. Usually we get a single bolt every two years. But anyways, yeah, lightning even puts off gamma radiation we recently found out. Insane stuff brother.
Wow it appears Jake started watching a channel that actually knows how to present a project without it looking like a four year old made it!!! Finally bro wtf
Awesome 👏 video! Sleepless in Seattle.
@@PlasmaChannel lightning= arc mode plasma
That is because of Crystal Resonance Spark Gap that people don't understand. However I do... I think it's time to end this holographic journey. ❤ you guys.
Thank you Johnathon.
Thank you Jay.
Gareth, I am honored you enjoyed my content.
@@PlasmaChannel Its deserved.
@@PlasmaChannel what you bring to the world Jay is light. I applaud You.
Thank you both.
I just noticed, it's relaxing to watch your videos; you have very tight editing!
Hey Dayton, Thanks! Editing is more fun that the shooting in my opinion!
I agree with you Dayton.
I'm so glad I found your channel. Finally another person that's into electricity like myself. You have the focus capabilities that I do not have thus you provide excellent knowledge with explanations of these processes and how they work. Myself I just build trinkets without explanation...it just makes sense to me.
Cheers, Derek!
Interesting, I used to track lightning using my AM radio.
How to do that?
@@galihadi2101 you hear the static discharge on it and you point your ferrite rod antenna to search for the direction to go to.
Great video as usual Jay! Really blew my mind when flashed upon leaving your seat!
I brought it to work, and accidentally discovered that. I had so much fun shooting that little scene!
Dude honestly the quality of your builds is PRIME. I don't know how you even come up with such smart ideas and designs, it actually mind blowing. Good job, i could never think up such an in-depth thought-out design. Well done!
TRE, thank you so much! Honestly, i'm a perfectionist. I dont like building something that isnt both strong, functional, and beautiful. I have a huge dislike of glue, and prefer nuts and bolts because then the project is as strong as steel. I also love plexiglass.
@@PlasmaChannel Wow thats great! Most tutorials are not very good quality (hot glue, not very original, and sometimes not functional) and thats why i like this channel. Im very surprised you arent up at the top like TKOR.
Another great video! Your Content is super interesting and your production quality is just insane. You got everything right. Please stay that way. You are awesome!
Aw, thanks man! I'm getting a new camera soon, so hopefully the video quality will go up, too
@@PlasmaChannel Great! Even more quality. I am really glad that there are people like you who actually take effort in making their videos. You may not upload too often, but that is absolutely no problem when you have just so insane quality. That is the reason why you are a favourite RUclipsr. Please stay that way. Quality over quantity.
Would love love love to see a part 2 for this!
Absolutely amazing
Awesome as usual! Thanks Johnathon!
Cheers, Rob. Thanks for watching.
Hey Jay, Congrats in advance for hitting 50k subs. I hope it turns 50millions. Those people who hasn't subscribed yet have no idea what they're missing out. Wish you all the good luck :)
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That was an really AWESOME build as always :)
I was quite surprised to see that it can detect those miniscule static discharges. I'm gonna build one for sure.
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All the best wishes.
And you stay classy :)
Tarun! As always, pleasure seeing you stop by. Can you recall....when did you start following my channel again? It was near the beginning right? Thanks for all your support, and I cant wait to hit 100k! (still a WAYS out)
@@PlasmaChannel I started following your channel near the end of 2017. That's what my RUclips history tells me. LOL.
I missed a whole year :(
I'm glad I found your channel :)
Nice & simple !! Thank you Jay !
I can only hope that my videos are simple enough to follow, yet have enough information in them that you walk away learning something. Cheers!
Amazing video, I love plasma, I love your work❤️❤️❤️...
Thanks! Always be safe, but always, explore, create, and build.
Nice and interesting! Thank you both!
I'm really glad you enjoyed!
Thank you, I want to make one now. Thank you Jay and Johnathan!
I am honored you enjoyed my video! If the video is shareworthy, share away.
Damn this is super cool, thanks for the video :)
I'm honored you enjoyed! If this viddy is shareworthy, share away.
Awesome video J and thank you John
Hi Jordan, thanks for the compliments.
Love your videos ♥️
Thank you
Thank you for this idea. I am a ham radio operator (LB5JG), and i need this device to warn me about close storms, so I have time to disconnect my antennas. I will definately build one or more of these. 73, Asle
Hi Asle, im honored you enjoyed my video. Seriously, this little device is incredible. It sits just off camera, on my little shelf of things i've built for this channel. It goes off every single time I experiment and make sparks. It is reliable. And battery lasts months / years.
Super knowledge bro I love it☺👌👍👍👍👍👍👌
Thanks!
Another great video Jay... well done.... I'm looking forward to the follow-up...
Thank you so much!
Good to see a new video from you.
It took a while, as I was beginning to film my next video at the same time.
Loved the Video! Can't wait to build one.
The man himself! If you read through the comments, viewers are happy to thank you for your video selection. Job well done, Celgara.
@@PlasmaChannel Thanks Jay, I'm Glad the video was a huge Success. Thank you everyone for Supporting Jay and growing his channel
Cool Build 👍👍😊
I appreciate it, thanks
It is very sensitive, Thanks Jay !
I'm honored you enjoyed my content.
Really enjoy this to the point where I'm going to make one myself and 3D printer case for it. I also will be designing the case as well.
Go for it! Glad you enjoyed! All that I ask is that if you release the exact 3D printed version of this to the public, please make it slightly different.
Awesome work as always.
Thanks Fred!
Plasma Channel Truly love your explanation. Very simple, broken down and very clear straightforward.
Awesome bro !!!
Thanks ✌️
such a great quality!!
Thank you!
@Plasma Channel...Your videos are aesthetically perfect. Sometimes they are very little explanatory and not everyone who watch your videos knows electronics. The materials you use, for your projects, are new. A major challenge and thinking about the environment, is to use recycled things. But I think, that will not be your case. But I like your channel, it have interesting things. Thanks for sharing.
I really appreciate you leaving such a detailed compliment. Thank you! My flaw is that I demand beauty out of anything I build. A messy build, a non- symmetrical build, or a build that is physically weak.... drives me mad. So I tend to use lots of nuts and bolts, acrylic, plastics, and use symmetry. Using recycled materials certainly would be worth investigating, as I too care about the environment. Cheers!
Nice job! As always .
Thanks Carlos. I appreciate that sentiment!
@@PlasmaChannel ✌✌
Works like Heinrich Hertz from your last show about Hertz, great video Jay!
Thanks Jeff!
I am sure I’m not the only one who would love to buy some parts-kits to assemble those builts of yours.
I have received a large number of requests, actually. It just comes down to a time issue. I work a full time job, and film 5 nights a week, sometimes 6 for RUclips. So, assembling kits / figuring out how to sell them has been delayed longer than i'd like! I definitely plan on it.
@@PlasmaChannel I'm really curious what your full time job is. Can you tell us?
@@nigel-matthews He puts the labels on cans of slug poison. My best friend, growing up, also had that job for awhile.
Thanks Johnathan
This is such a under rated channel. These kind of channels are why I started to work with electronics.
I started 5 years ago when I was 13. My first project was a car that droves on air by propellers. Now 5 years later I am building teslacoils en all kind of high or low voltage projects. And I never get bored. My first tesla coil was your mini desktop teslacoil design😂
Great job Jay. Keep it up.👌
car with a propeller on it is legend
I really appreciate hearing from subscribers like you. Thank you for such kind words, and I'm really glad to hear i've helped inspire a love of physics.
awesome vedio.. very informative
thank you johnathon
thank you jay
I appreciate you commenting, and watching.
The lightning is like: And I would've gotten away with it too if not for those meddling kids
Those meddling kids!
That's so cool! I should try to built it soon!
It took me the better part of a day, but its really cool! Parts are in the description.
Nice! Add a way for it to send an SMS or email when it detects valid lightening (not local static triggers) and I would love to build one!
Amazing!
Such good quality content
I love hearing that. Thanks!
Nice 👍
Thank you David
Can't wait for the next video
Comments like that are what I love to hear. Hint: I've already begun filming the next viddy!
That's Awesome 😯👍👍👍
Cheers! glad you enjoyed
This is the best video I have ever seen
I guess all of my videos are the best you’ve ever seen? Thanks!
Thanks for sharing this cool device ^.^ it can be used for statistical analysis of lightning occurrence of regions, relation between amount of lightnings and rain, it can be upgraded to show intensity of lightnings too. There are so many fields this device can be worked even for ghost detecting :D
While i'm skeptical about the last part - spot on for the rest! I'm honored you enjoyed my viddy - if it's shareworthy, share away!
Interesting video. Did you ever do the followup enhanced version or video?
I tried yesterday during a really bad storm, but with an old AM radio, similar to with the 3v Tesla cool experiment video, the sounds in the radios matched with the visible lightning in the clouds
Thats awesome. I love hearing science working as expected. Super cool.
His creations are classy
I appreciate that!
Hello Jay, I can’t wait to see upgraded version , Please made another powerful version
You can also do this with an am radio. Go to anywhere from 1-560 khz or as low as you can. You should hear a buzzing, popping noise every once and a while. Not all radios have this frequency range though. (also works best if the storm is right on top of your area or you can hear distant thunder)
Wouldnt work as good, a.m. has a lot of problems you can hear pretty much any crackling from nearby stations, which is why VLF radios are used they work on the same frequencies as your ear, but they listen to electromagnetic waves and not physical waves
Awesome video as always. What is your favorite project you have done over the years and what are you excited about doing in the future?
Thank you. Thats a great question. Honestly, I have too many! My mini Van De Graff generator build, lightning tower build, my large voltage multiplier, and my large tesla coil (featured in many videos) are at the top of the list!
I built a storm detector. Almost identical. In addition to the LED for the visible effect, I added a buzzer for the hearing effect. Detects lightning from a distance some of 5 km/3miles. Frequency around 150-170kHz. I think in kHz. I confirm the beeps with a map showing lightning in the Internet and the sound of thunder outside the window. Works fine. :)
I ran across the circuit you're using a few years ago and used it as the basis for an msp430 opto-isolated shutter release to take photos of lightening strikes. However, all of the storms I've been in since have been far too close (a few hundred feet - absolutely terrifying - to only 2 - 4 miles) which would be unsafe condions for me and my camera. So, still a work in progress.
Hi Robert. I am glad to hear you've had such success with this circuit. Pretty cool to hear about your encounter.
Very cool
Cheers, honored you enjoyed
good very interesting
Glad you think so!
Nice video jay... Greetings from an old subscriber 🥳
Hey Franci. Cheers!
FIne, fine video! Where can I get schematics/parts sources/kits(?? maybe??) for the other four goodies you showed towards the end of the video?? Definitely keep up the good work!
Thank you Ed! I plan to produce kits for all the DIY builds on my channel, in time. My only problem is time. I dont have much time to individually sell and assemble the kits - so if I could find a third-party entity to store the parts, assemble the kits, and I sell them, that would be amazing.
made this kind of circuit in my bachelor thesis but with a 4 antenna-array for localization of partial discharges which are in a way equal to lightnings
Thats pretty cool. How sensitive was it?
amazing
First time it lit up, I lost my head. This stuff is so cool to me.
Great video. I would like to see the triggering connected to a data recording instrument of some kind. On pc or external. Lightning apps for the phone do well to show strikes, how far, when and even a expanding ring like a shock wave showing about when you should expect to hear it if close enough in the first place.
Thanks Ramius. I plan to connect this up to something much cooler in my opinion!
You can't say how far away the lightning is because its power is a gaussian probability, time is also not possible because you don't have the time of discharge
You'd probably have to have multiple stations scattered wide and far to triangulate a lightning strike. Probably could be handled with a Raspberry Pi and one of these lightning detectors tied to the GPIO pin, then multiple detectors could cooperate on a strike, or at least that's the idea
A piezo igniter will set it off too. With a long piece of wire connected to it, 3-4m can be achieved.
im gonna bring it to the whole home lights circuit :D
Haha, this little circuit only powers a small LED
Any chance for updated parts lists? Not that I couldn't find alternatives, just like to support by buying through your links.
Thank you, Jay. But we'll never be able to make it. the value of one of the capacitors next to the power supply on the schematic is missing?
Also, where can i find a type of enclosure you used here?
Can you make a video with the detector and the spark gap transmitter and sending morse code?
great
Damn I love your videos, and I always wonder why do they have only few views?
I’m honored to have as many views as I already get. More, would indeed be nicer though! Feel free to share this video online if you think it is shareworthy!
Surely it is! Masterpiece!
This project is awesome, recently I have built a detector for electrostatic charges, I called it "Electrostatic Polarity Detector" - Polarity because thanks a CD4011 IC is able to distinguish positive charges from negative charges. Greetings from Italy!
Thank you so much! And, that is amazing. Do you mind sharing a video in this comment thread of it? I'd love to take a look.
Greetings from Seattle, Washington!
Plasma Channel Yes, here the first vedeo: ruclips.net/video/eN964Dpc3hw/видео.html - and here a second video with the PCB: ruclips.net/video/4nS8xujHZT8/видео.html
Very good aplication
Nice video sir
Thank you
Wow awesome bro
Always 1 question
Can it attrack the lighting of sky ..? If can then what will happen to that circuit 😢?
It will not attract lightning, at all. This is a detector.
Very nice video. I wish more youtube videos were as professionally done! However I notice the circuit you built is different from the referenced schematic. Any comment?
Now I want to see your video on telleric waves.
Awesome video! Could I ask you some questions regarding what kind of transformer I should use for a specific application?
Thanks! Sure thing, ask away.
@@PlasmaChannel i need to generate an electric arc that can jump a gap of 1-2 inches, is extremely hot and is extremely hard to blow out. I assume this means I will need high voltage, high current and high frequency? What options are there for a transformer I could just buy and what safety precautions would you recommend?
muy bueno!!!!
Gracias!
I am in love! I am so going to build this after I am done with my Tesla Coil projects! Can it detect Tesla Coil discharges. Can you install a car antenna to increase the distance that it can detect lightning?
Please tell me where you get your antique components from. :)
any chance of a tutorial video as im not good at following schematics but i can follow video directions
Awesome it is cool..... 👏✊👍
Crazy stuff huh?
Woah cool. I also try something like this but with loop antenna to test magnetic direction finding method. I do not really into this on knowledge but I have to try for my project.
I try some random multi turn loop of wire and I pick some signal from the spark (air gap impulse breakdown). But the thing is, it's not like from the theory where the antenna should give maximum output from a specific angle to the spark.
but rather the angle give me no relation to the output.. it's just random. I can't check the directivity of my loop.
Why do you think this happen? Is it because "near field"? Or maybe because the signal reflection due to small room? Or maybe the loop is just not a 'good enough' designed to see 'loop antenna directivity'
Sry for bad English. But anyway. Great video!
Thanks for the informative video. I have an earthing wire going from lightning arrestor on my roof to ground where earthing plate is placed. How can I build a simple circuit to detect the lightning strikes that have been attracted on the lightning arrestor on my roof. I do not want to see the other nearby lightning strikes. Appreciate something cool on this please.
Thanks Jonathan!! I was wondering is there a way to build up enough negative energy to part a small lake like mosses did with his rod from the gods?
In fact, I aim to shoot a video about just that. I is likely impossible with a full lake. A small puddle - possible.
Auhauhauh good one Mister Russell
I think that he uses sacred geometry and one caduceus to do
The arch of alliance should be power of it.
Im kinda kidding and kinda believe in sacred geometry
Pyramidal form heals me. Just works. I believe it
Can we connect a fan or a bigger led light instead of that small one and just clap whenever we enter a room? Will it turn it on?
Would you please teach us how you get the items to build up such diy projects
go to digikey
I need this :o
Also, where's the follow up vid?
And are there any other ways to detect storms?
would this be helpful anticipating a hypersonic strike?
Thank u Jonathan
Thank u "J".
We may never know. Is it J, Jae, Jay, Jai, Jaye?
This is nice one! is it okay if I build one on my channel? I will put credits in place !
Thank you and Jonathan for sharing this!
Hi Kian! You certainly can build one on your channel. I only request that if you 3D print it, that you do not release the exact 3D file public. Cheers!
@@PlasmaChannel No problem!
I wonder if it will detect the DEW weapons when then operate?
Jay, the parts list is nice but you should consider selling this as a kit with a PCB.
A cool project would be to have 4 cameras looking into 4 directions on the roof. They would film everything all the time, and when the detector detects a lighting they would save last 2 seconds of the video on say like a raspberry pi. Then you can theoretically have awsome shots of lighting. Also could add some machine learning to delete any video without one and mabey email you the ones that have got them.
That sounds 1) awesome 2)potentially out of my expertise. I do not specialize in computer programming. One heck of an idea though!
Wow!
Right?!
A string of dollar tree blue LED lights left in the on position that have a drained battery will glow faintly when a severe storm is approaching. Found this out by accident while living in Missouri having some dead decorations from a holiday in our kitchen. The string became a bit of a storm detector for us.
Hi Jay, I was looking at the schematic for this build via the link above, and I noticed what looks like a 660pf capacitor. I don't see one listed in the parts list you have so thoughtfully included. It is possible I am missing something, as I am new to this. Thanks.
Great point there Timothy. I see I left that link out. I'll work at placing a link in there for the cap.
@@PlasmaChannel damn and here I am, after having ordered the items a month ago, ready to assemble everything, only now realizing i'm short of that one 680pF cap. :(
Can you please make a video of building flyback Driver circuit.
Ur best dude
Thank you, DeVeron
Hi, looking for a lightning detector I came a cross you video. I'm not so much looking for a something that detects lightning, but looking for a device that can detect a high power, high current, high frequency shortcut. I thing your detector will work. Just one question; If it's close to the place where the shortcut can happen, will just a very small antenna work?
Hi Rob! That is a great question. First off, welcome to my channel. If you are close to the thing you are trying to detect, I'd actually RECOMMEND a smaller antenna (1-5 inches). Heres's why: the antenna uses inductance to create an electrical current from a radio wave. If the power source is too strong, the antenna may create too much power, and fry your transistors.
Hi Jay!
I'm gathering the components to make this project.
In the schematic image, there is one 680 pF cap near the inductors, but in the BOM there is no reference to this component. Can you please clarify?
Thanks!
You indeed need a 680pF cap
@@PlasmaChannel Thanks!
It's already working!
Now is only missing the "enclosure".
Keep on with these very cool videos!