Maintenance plan for Solar Street Lights
1. The main components maintenance points.
1) Solar streetlights controller affects the systems lighting time and brightness changes. Because the components of solar street lights have different life, they are battery and controller who mainly control the lighting time and brightness changes, if you find the lighting time of street light is not enough, you should first check the battery power, and check the controller at the same time, Each manufacturer’s controller has instructions, are generally equipped with a working status indicator, which can initially determine whether the solar street light system is working properly. It’s recommended to install the remote monitoring systems for big projects in order to easily monitoring the status of the electrical components and save money, time, effort during the operations and maintenance.
2) Solar panels. Solar panels are the key components for solar streetlights in providing energy, so it is necessary to ensure that the solar panels are complete in a good status and clean to maintain the efficiency and electricity production. Main considerations are keeping the solar panels clean to avoid the hotspot that damage the panels on the long run.
3) Solar battery. Mainly includes paying attention to security, checking whether the solar streetlights charge and discharge normally. Can refer to the work status of solar street light controller make preliminary judgment and can check the power levels of battery charge and discharge, It is strictly forbidden to adjust the working state of the solar street liaht controller without authorization, to avoid the overshoot and over discharge for the battery.
4) Street light source. This is relatively simple. First of all, to strictly prohibit hard objects and sharp objects hitting or impacting, and often check the working status o the light source, timely maintenance once the individual lamp beads are not lighting. To avoid damage to the entire light.
5) Solar poles and accessories. In particular, pay attention to checking the configuration of the installation door must be complete, in time to make up it damaged anc lost, because the internal installed the solar street lights controller and related lines, it is likely to cause short – circuit and damage if the rain falls in.
2. Typical maintenance schedule
1) Every Week: Inspect streetlights to ensure all the lights are working. If there are lights which are not functioning, perform analysis immediately to understand cause and conduct repairs. As fast as detecting the malfunction to avoid the full damage of the lighting system. In the force majeure a periodical cleaning for the solar panels is important to maintain the high performance and keep on the lifetime of the system operations.
2) Every Two Months: Inspect Street liaht panels and clean ones which are covered with dust or sand. The best wav to clean the panels is with a brush at the end of a long pole. Cares should be taken to avoid damaging the solar panels and consult Sunmaster technical team to get the complete cleaning instructions.
3) Every Five to seven Years: Replace the solar street light components within the expected lifetime like batteries if the voltages drop below normal levels. The battery has an expected life of five – seven years.