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Anyone hang nodes in tall trees? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 day ago by CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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I live in Western Washington, and we have very tall (130ft+) Douglas fir everywhere. I have a few on my property and I'm coming up with a plan to hang a node relatively high up.

I have two options to do this safely. I can either use an arborist sling to shoot a rope maybe 60ft or so up, and then pull a heavier rope with the node up. Or, I could drop some fishing line and a weight from my drone and do the same thing, except possibly even higher up.

Has anyone done something like this? Am I overthinking this, or missing something?

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[–] clif@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's a really cool idea. I just had two small solar cells on one side of the case which made it very directional. I'd toyed with the idea of building a little "housing" that was fixed to the pole where it could only enter in the correct orientation but I got lazy/impatient and just ran it up.

Seems like that case would help a lot. My first worry was series vs parallel, but that is helpfully called out in the README (with these three panels in parallel) and if they were in series it'd likely be WAY too much voltage (depending on the charge controller).

As long as the mounting location gets decent sun from at least one angle for a good part of the day, that looks like an awesome solution. I'm bookmarking it for future builds, so thanks : )