Glow of the Solar Street Lights

Hey friends! How are you doing today!

Yesterday our company finished yet another Solar power project - 2 Nos of Solar Street Lights at an Industry situated in the city of Faridabad.

Let us take you through the journey of how the work began and how it finished.

The work on installation of 2 Nos of Solar Street Lights (SSLs) began last Thursday when we received all the necessary material for installation. Actual work on the site began on Friday, 27 June 2014.
This is how the final installed Solar Street Light looks like.

Installed Solar Street Light 

Step 1: Preparing the Foundation

First thing, we got a local Labor to prepare the foundation where the street light pole will be mounted. For the two lights, we did two types of foundations. One was done by digging a hold into the existing wall. The other was done using bricks and laying the foundation on top of the roof without digging into the roof. Within a few hours, the labor did their job and the foundations were ready to erect the poles.

Labor preparing foundation for pole erection

Foundation dug for SSL pole

Step 2: Erection of the Poles

On the concrete foundation, bolts are laid in an inverted direction. The poles are then erected with the base of the poles fixed on the erected bolts.

SSL Pole standing on the ground before erection

Pole erected on one roof with bolting to support

SSL #1 Pole after erection on the door wall

SSL #2 Pole after erection on the side wall

After the poles are erected, they need to be left for a day for the concrete foundation to get settled. So we continued the remaining part of the work on the next day.

Step 3: Installing Street Light Fixtures on the Poles

The next step was to install the street light fixtures on the poles. There following are the fixtures:

1. Battery Box (to put the battery)
2. Luminary (9W LED light)
3. Solar Panel (40W Solar Panel)
4. Wiring 

In order to install the fixtures, we had to bring the pole down from where it was erected. The fixtures will be installed and the pole will be erected once again.

Fixtures start with the Battery Box. This is how a battery box looks like (with all the necessary accessories in it).

Battery box with all necessary accessories

The first step is to fix the battery box on the pole. 

Expert fixing battery box on the pole

Next comes fixing the light accessories and the luminary on the pole.

Light accessory fixed on the pole

 Third item on the list is the putting up the Solar panel.

Expert fixing the structure with the Solar Panel

Panel mounting on the SSL pole

Finally comes the turn of doing the wiring of the pole, connecting the right positives and the right negatives together.

Step 4: Mounting of the Poles

Once we did all the fixtures and wiring on the pole, the final step was to do the mounting of the SSL poles at their right place.

Expert mounting the pole at its right place

One item that still remained to do was putting the battery into the battery box. Since the batteries are heavy, they are put into the battery box only after mounting of the pole.

SSL #1 lit up at main gate of industry

SSL #1 lit up at main gate of industry inside view

SSL #2 lit up at night front view

SSL #2 lit up at night side view

Once all this is done, the Solar Street Light is all set and ready to glow and shine in the night!

Oh and one last thing, the light switches on automatically in the night and switches off automatically in the morning. There is no need for a power on/off switch. Cool isn't it! :)

For any questions/queries about Solar technology or installation, leave a comment or send us an email at info@sun-photonics.com and we shall get back to you within 24 hours of your query.

Watch out for this space for more such Solar installations and procedures.

Until then, have a good Sunny time!

Regards,
Team Sun Photonics!