I actually bought one of those from Playing with Fusion. They have a little breakout board. I hooked it up to an Arduino Due which needed a bit of code modification but it worked. It’s… okay. It can detect most strikes, but the reliability is not great and it picks up a lot of noise. Most of the time it detects lightning as a “disturber” which means it knows some sort of electrical noise happened, but it can’t tell if it’s actually lightning. Also you can trigger it with the spark from a cigarette lighter.

It’s a raised foundation. It’s currently installed at 1m above the ground. I was just concerned about the proximity to concrete (concrete is typically slightly radioactive, or so I hear). I could move it away from the concrete, but I would have to violate the 1m guideline. Okay so I’ll leave it right where it is. Thanks.

Nevermind. My bad. It just teleported to Toronto. Can you move it back to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada? Thanks.

Excellent. Exactly what I was looking for. Props on the new website, by the way. I’m not sure about the green superman shields, but the detailed graphing when you click on a node is top notch!