your post is noted about posting technical questions from operators in the internal forum I was not aware of that procedure, however, my request for a login ability to the internal forum has a operator has not been actioned. I have sent an request email, as per instructions, to blitzortung@gmx.org. ( Sorry if any operators have replied to my "moved post" technical question, I do not have access to the internal forum yet )

Jeff

Whilst using an old magnifying light setup (really old, incandescent blubs.. lol), in building the PCB12 ver 3c amp, an IC was put in the wrong spot. I managed to get the IC back off and placed where it should be in IC2, but in the process, pulled up some circuit board tape. The relevant IC is IC2 dual op amp MCP6292. The relevant problem regarding the circuit tape lifting is (looking from top, antennae to left, RJ45 to the right) is the bottom right hand corner of IC2. The tape leads to Capacitor 6. Now I have ordered a spare PCB12 ver 3c from Egon as the board failed power up test. My belief was the IC did not survive the removal/replacement and the circuit board tape were issues. All other parts are going ok in construction, a new mag light system with LED lights much better!!! Now between construction of different parts, I have again revisited the ver 3c board. Now I have managed to connect a wire bridge from the bottom right hand corner (diagonally opposite the indent) to Capacitor 6. I have also touched up some of the solder joints. To my surprises, the PCB now passed initial power up, as described in the blitz system red assembly.

My questions are, if that IC2 is damaged, would the unit succeed in the initial power up check? The circuit lead that went from that bottom right hand corner IC2 and C6, if that is not working, what will such a non connection cause in the system, what isn't going to work? Looking at the circuit diagram for 12 ver 3c, I can see a connection between the IC2 and C5 & 6, but I am not sure if this connection has not been successful with the wire bridge, what issues this will cause to the amp? I am hoping that the board might be right and I will be able to at least connect and test the system but my intention it to carefully construct the replacement PCB 12 ver 3c and use it in the final completed system. I have doubts about IC2 and that wire bridge.

regards,

Jeff

Hi, Is it advisable to shield ferrite antennas which will be going outside?

Jeff

Well the kit has arrived safe and well from Germany . I will do an inventory of the parts tonight and hopefully if all goes well, we will have a new reporting station in northern New South Wales, Australia, by the end of next week......

Has anyone run one of these chips in a controller board?

Coverage in my area is pretty poor. Any news as to when I can order hardware to add coverage for my area?

Hi,

Looking through the pages of stations, I noticed that my original station (723) is listed, this died after a thunderstorm on the 28 August 2013, the Red board was ok, it was the ST board and LCD which needed changing, but it came back to life as station 755, how do I remove 723 or is it that important? (I was thinking it might skew the metrics of available stations to actual online).

Cheers

Ian

My station (1187) is listed as offline but it's working.

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SEE https://forum.blitzortung.org/showthread.php?tid=1011

Since about midnight last night, the Mean signals per station and # signals per station have dropped to zero for my station and all the other UK/Europe stations I have looked at on lightningmaps.org, and the station statuses are active but "no reception". On BO participants page the signals numbers are also zero, but the last signal time stamps are still incrementing.

My controller is up and running and seems to think it is sending signals ok.

Is there a problem?

Andrew

I'm a new member waiting for the devices to be on sale again and have a question.
I have a weather station and web site(ACE2WEATHER) and I wish to use the map(Oceania) on my own website which is all in htm format, can this be done easily?
Im guessing once I have a detector and submitting data, this could be possible..

Sorry for the noob questions, I just wish to have everything sorted as I get my lightning detector.

Chris(Australia)