With LED light source signal Dhain Expo hot burst table?

Recently, the World Expo in Shanghai, a large chimney Outdoor Thermometer stopped working, netizens have speculated that the weather is too hot burst table or too high temperature dare not report". Reporters yesterday from the group confirmed that the strike is because the giant thermometer control box in early July by lightning Jihuai, due to the recent sustained hot summer weather, it is difficult to repair the 165 meters of the top of the chimney repair, waiting for the weather to go up slightly cooler, maintenance.

Expo meteorological signal tower

Large chimney 165 meters high, was built in 1985, belongs to the original South City Power Plant (founded in 1897). During the period of 2010 in World Expo, the southern city power plant was transformed into the city's Future Museum (now the Museum of Contemporary Art), the big chimney has turned into the Expo meteorological signal tower, as one of the landmarks of the Expo site.

The signal tower depends on the dense arrangement of LED light source, which is represented by blue, yellow, orange, red, white, and purple six kinds of color change to indicate different degrees of weather. At the same time, it also has many functions such as weather forecast, early warning and temperature display.

Thermometer is actually a LED lamp

The chimney thermometer, which stands in Puxi Expo site, was once one of the symbols of the Expo Park. After the Expo, the giant thermometer has been used, the people of both sides of Pujiang far away, you can know the real-time temperature, once there is a warning of meteorological stations, the thermometer will be synchronized display.

Recently, however, the giant thermometer stopped working. Back in July 24th, there are users released the Expo Park thermometer strike news, users on micro-blog, WeChat on the discussion, will not be too high temperatures, thermometer burst table.

"It is impossible to explode the thermometer, which has no actual temperature. "World Expo Group Practice Area Engineering Department official single Qi introduction, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau of real-time transmission and high temperature warning, weather forecast and other information, to show the LED lamps on a large screen digital display or color etc..

Starting in 2010, World Expo, the Expo Park chimney thermometer every 10 minutes to update the park's real temperature, the average hourly temperature of the park on the day of the highest temperature. If there is a high temperature, the thermometer is a large screen with different colors of light to indicate different levels of weather.

In early July this year, more thunderstorms, the top of the chimney control box was struck by lightning, resulting in the thermometer can not be displayed properly. The manager had to cut off the power supply at the bottom of the control panel, and the giant thermometer stopped working.