Telemetry Station

[FaradayFF]

Hi Guys,

From your experience, do you typically see telemetry control panels/solar panels mounted on wooden poles or metal poles?

Thanks,
EE

 

[hbiss]

Our water department has hundreds on wooden poles. They're in a Hoffman box on a WP plywood backboard mounted to the pole with some Unistrut. Antenna at the top. It's not solar so there is a service drop and a meter on each one. Solar wouldn't work in this application because they monitor and control valves in an underground valve pit and there are sump pumps in each one also. They have Rob-Roy down the pole into the vault. Been in existence for about 10-12 years and when they were installing them I wouldn't have believed the backboard would have lasted this long.

-Hal

 

[paulengr]

Utility poles normally last 30+ years. Modern treated lumber though not so well. Galvanized strut is pretty good outdoors and super simple to install and use.


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[petersonra]

Utility poles normally last 30+ years. Modern treated lumber though not so well.

as long as it is not in contact with the ground, treated lumber will last a long time. treated plywood does tend to de-laminate over time though, especially if cut edges are not sealed.