Photovoltaic monitoring system for AMIGA

CANCIO, A., MANCILLA, A., MAYA, J., LEAL, N. YOUINOU, M., ALMELA, A. FUSTER, F., HAMPEL, M.F., GALLO, F., LUCERO, A., PLATINO, M., REYES, C. SUAREZ, F., VIDELA, M., WAINBERG, O., YELÓS, D., GARCÍA, B. ETCHEGOYEN, A.

Malargüe, Mendoza

Otro; Internal technical notes (GAP Notes); 2016

Observatorio Pierre Auger

In this contribution we present the the design, characteristics, performance and results after 6 months of testing of the prototype to monitoring the Photovoltaic system installed in one of the AMIGA stations, ?Los Piojos?, as well as the first results for AMIGA real consumption. Part of the study was devoted to characterize the operation of the entire AMIGA Photovoltaic system and understand charge and discharge cycles, the system behavior under different climatic conditions and to determine its limitations (days of autonomy, times of charge / discharge, currents peaks and voltages). It was determined that the configuration of solar controllers in parallel is able to manage panels from different power and brand, and about the global consumption of AMIGA detector installed at Los Piojos SD, it resuts higher than the measured at the laboratory and results of about 45W.