Mars Soiling Sensor
Highlights:
- Mars™ makes soiling measurement easy. No maintenance, no washing, no cleaning, no calibration. Install, configure, and go.
- Innovative Mars optical technology determines a soiling ratio by capturing and analyzing images of dust on its soiling collection window.
- Unlike other optical soiling sensor technologies, it does not require any site-specific calibration.
- Mount the Mars unit in plane-of-array to capture soiling and dust particles just like your PV modules do. Wash the Mars unit whenever you wash your PV array, to keep the Mars cleanliness identical to your array.
- Its simple and maintenance-free operation enables users to reduce technician hours and produce soiling loss measurements for utility and commercial-scale PV systems.
- The all-new second-generation housing provides simple and robust installation, with integrated mounting features for weather / meteorological stations
- Meets IEC 61724-1 requirements for soiling measurement
- Communicates via Modbus RTU over RS485
Outputs:
- Soiling ratio
Applications:
- Determine soiling losses for PV performance monitoring
- Optimize washing schedules for PV power plants
- Determine typical soiling rates for forecasting models
- Collect pre-construction prospecting data at for solar resource assessment
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