SolarTAC Pictures

Photos of instrumentation and tower
at SolarTAC Measurement Station



Concrete base for solar tracker
Solar tracker base
Preperation for solar tracker
Preparing base for solar tracker installation
Applying power to solar tracker
Powering up solar tracker
Installing split loom
Installing split loom to protect instrument signal cables
Routing signal cables
Routing signal cables from instruments to data logger enclosure
Data logger enclosure
Data logger, pressure sensor, and battery mounted to the side of tracker base inside weatherproof enclosure
Solar tracker installed
Solar tracker and instruments installed
2AP solar tracker with radiometers (right side)
2AP solar tracker with Eppley 8-48, which measures diffuse, mounted under the shading ball. The Kipp & Zonen CMP22 (right) measures global horizontal.
2AP solar tracker with radiometers (left side)
2AP solar tracker with Kipp & Zonen CH1 (lower right) measuring direct normal.
Lowering met tower
Lowering meteorological tower
Raising met tower
Raising meteorological tower with wind sensors installed
Wind sesnors
Close up of wind speed, direction, and lightning rod
Rain guage
Rain gauge
Temperature & Humidity probe
Temperature and relative humidity probe inside a naturally aspirated radiation shield
SolarTAC enterance sign
SolarTAC entrance sign
SolarTAC North
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the north
SolarTAC North East
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the north east
SolarTAC East
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the east
SolarTAC South East
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the south east
SolarTAC South
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the south
SolarTAC South West
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the south west
SolarTAC West
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the west
SolarTAC North West
SolarTAC measurement station, view looking to the north west


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