Dropped this here before...our off grid data link and data relay point serving the community connectivity needs:
From another angle
In doing so probably mentioned another site nearby that links to the lowest small dish above but provides coverage into other areas.
It's only a couple of km away:
It's been active for a year now and being over there a couple of days back was a good opportunity to grab a few pics.
It was an abandoned CB/RT relay site and as technology has moved on from when it was originally installed and cell coverage was in its infancy here, anyway a few years back the untreated timber pole blew down in a storm however the concrete tank bunker and its solar panel frame and wind turbine were still salvageable so were put to good use.
5 GHz Point to Point data provision is what it does now with the backhaul to our main relay site that's now 11 GHz backhaul provisioned and been operating for an additional few months. Bottom dish provides the backhaul to our main site.
New pole and HW looking in the general direction of our primary site:
The wind turbine is getting on and most info on it is illegible however there is a faint 100W rating and under no load some 18V is produced therefore we've deduced it's a 12V 8A turbine and engineered around it as such.
The single 320W solar panel and it's mounting HW is new however the galv pipe frame atop the bunker was existing and therefore reutilised although a good few rusty bolts were replaced with stainless.
At this time the single solar panel and wind turbine are managing very well and although we provisioned mounting for 2 panels I doubt if it will be used. More on this later.
A peek inside and the panel hides a pair of 12V 195AH SLA's connected in parallel for just a 12V system whose load is the external pole HW via the POE switch. A charge controller for each energy source.
This solar stuff is pretty impressive and in both installations it's the primary source of energy however what just one 320W panel can do fair blew my socks off a year ago when I remotely snapped this screenshot of the solar controller of what was then a spanking new installation. Just a second faster on the snap and it would show 20A !