Power Usage PurpleAir sensors run on 5 volts and the current draw is 180mA. This means the power consumption of a sensor is about 1 watt. If running the sensor 24 hours per day, the daily consumption would be 0.024 kWh. We have experimented with a 20Ah battery pack and found it was able to keep the …

Q: How much power does a PurpleAir sensor draw, and how much bandwidth/data does it use?

Robert July 13, 2022, 4:27am 4

I’ve used this one to power my PA-Indoor unit, for (outdoor) remote sensing

8 bytes every two minutes sounds pretty trivial

Battery packs for Indoor Sensors

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