Outdoor agricultural weather station power supply methods

Outdoor agricultural weather station power supply methods

There are two common ways to supply power to outdoor agricultural automatic weather stations, utility power and solar power. If the installation point of the automatic weather station equipment can be connected to the utility, it is best to use the utility, after all, it is stable and economic; if the equipment is not convenient to connect to the utility, it can only be connected to the solar power supply system, it is a common device for field power supply.

Solar power system has three main components, solar panels, batteries and charge and discharge controllers. If the solar power supply, well equipped with a large protective box, used to add the battery.

Some manufacturers put the battery in a plastic box, some buried under the ground, in fact, these two ways are not safe, the good way is to lock in a metal protective box, can be waterproof and anti-theft. (The middle of the product below)