1-Wire Lightning Protection

1-Wire Lightning Protection
While there is no totally effective way of protecting against direct lightning strikes, there are some things you can do.

Protection of 1-wire stations

Dallas Semiconductor page has a very good description on how to do the best you can at preventing lightning and static from destroying your weather station.

How to prevent lightning/static problems

Sites with 1-wire transient protection schemes...

http://www.simat.org.uk/transprot.html
http://pond1.gladstonefamily.net:8080/surge-protection.html

Isolation methods

You can add some protection by providing isolation at the PC bus master. This can be done by usinga isolated bus master. Several 1-wire companies have such products. Another way is to build a RS-232 opto-isolator circuit or to but one commerically. A good source for a commerical unit is from: http://www.bb-elec.com/ .

Yet another is to use fiber optics or wireless. Several companies has these sorts of devices. Check the manufactures linking to see what is currently available.