Solar Panel Use in the Field
The ES class were able to get three of the Yukon forestry remote fire risk stations that were operated with solar panels. These were essentially weather stations that logged temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and velocity, and rainfall. They were designed to transmit by radio, the logged data. We did not use the transmission component, rather we downloaded the data to lap tops in the field. These units required sizable batteries that would run down if not charges. We used a 10 watt solar panel to charge the batteries. These units saw only one year of use, after that we used Hobo dataloggers that we much simpler in operation.
The ES class were able to get three of the Yukon forestry remote fire risk stations that were operated with solar panels. These were essentially weather stations that logged temperature, relative humidity, wind direction and velocity, and rainfall. They were designed to transmit by radio, the logged data. We did not use the transmission component, rather we downloaded the data to lap tops in the field. These units required sizable batteries that would run down if not charges. We used a 10 watt solar panel to charge the batteries. These units saw only one year of use, after that we used Hobo dataloggers that we much simpler in operation.