Small one-time investment ensures a lifetime of reliability for your AWOS
High-efficiency solar charger and battery manager with complete electrical protection. Reduce your trips to the field and increase reliability of your weather observation stations.
Adds complete electrical protection from lightning plus most user-error related causes of sensor and weather station failures like reverse polarity protection, static discharge protection and protection from all electrically induced failures.
- 3-stage, Class A Lightning Protection
- Electrical fault protection for logger and sensors
- Fully independent sensor power lines with automatic isolation in case of electrical fault
- Electrical protection will add years of reliability to any AWOS
CAUSES OF WEATHER STATION FAILURES
Protect your weather station from natural causes of electrical failures:
- Lightning induced EMC
- Ground lightning induced Surge
- Cloud-to-Ground (CG) lightning induced high current transients
- Fast high-voltage transients induced from Cloud-to-Cloud lightning
- Electromagnetic Impulse (EMI) induced transients and surges on sensor wires
- Heavy industrial equipment induced electrical transients
- Ground loop potential differences
- Dry lighting discharge
Protect your weather station from human and accidental causes of electrical failures:
- Operator reverse polarity connections
- Bad electrical connections
- Sensor failures and sensor short-circuits
- Static electricity discharge from operators
- Static discharge of electrical buildup in sand storm conditions
- Short circuits caused by:
- Animals chewing through electrical connections
- Human error bad electrical connections
- Static discharge into equipment during blowing snow conditions
HOW YOUR WEATHER STATION IS PROTECTED
Significantly increase reliability of your weather stations. Protection and power manager for your expensive AWOS a sensor systems. Featuring the highest levels of low-level protection against all industrial and natural EMI and lightning disturbances.
PowerProtect
Features:
- 2 power inputs (solar, battery) including overvoltage, overcurrent, reverse protection, MPPT control, MPPT temperature compensation, battery managment of lead acid technology
- Charging temperature compensation
- High efficiency power managment of 5 power outputs
- 2x sensor power outputs
- 1x logger power output
- 1x 3.3V output
- 1x 5V output
- Sensor power outputs protected against industrial and natural EMI and lightning disturbances including over-voltage and over-current protection.
- Logger power output, 3.3V and 5V including basic over-voltage and over-current protection
- Smooth current sharing between solar and battery input including power dropout protection
- Manual managment of sensor outputs and 5V output (enable/disable), charging (enable/disable), battery charge current settings
- IP67 protection on optional IP67 aluminum case
PowerProtect Ultimate
Additional features:
- Precise power parameters measurements of solar and battery power inputs including voltages, currents, charging current
- Faults detection during input/output power and charging failures
- Manual or remote managment of: sensor outputs, 5V output (enable/disable), charging (enable/disable), battery charge current settings
- RS-232 or RS-485 modbus communication interface
- IP67 protection
Manua features:
- Manual management of sensor outputs and 5V power output (enable/disable), charging battery charge current (enable/disable) settings via a dip switch
- RS-232 or RS-485 Modbus communication interface selectable via a dip switch
- IP67 protection on optional IP67 aluminum case