Owner's manual

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Chapter 1
Introduction
About Lightning/2000… • System
Requirements • Lightning/2000 Installation
• Background Map Installation • Device
Driver Installation
About Lightning/2000…
Lightning/2000 is a software tool that can be used to replay
“canned” lightning archive files created by Lightning/2000, or
when used on a system that has the Boltek lightning detection
hardware and antenna, can detect and analyze real-time
lightning data.
Though every effort has been made, a certain percentage of
actual lightning strokes will be misidentified as noises. In
general, the precise location of any particular lightning flash as
plotted by Lightning/2000 cannot be guaranteed.
However with the advent of Lightning/2000 v4.6, the
ability to determine – in most cases – when an individual
lightning flash is relatively nearby became possible
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When such flashes are detected, a special “storm” is depicted.
Rather than being a wedge shape, these special nearby storms
are circular or elliptical. When one of these storms is shown,
there is an excellent chance that lightning is imminent or is
occurring in the immediate area.