SenseaCAP M1 User Setup Sharing (May 24)

Hi, community,

This post is the second batch of the SenseaCAP M1 users’ setups sharing. There are many interesting and highly practical use cases from SenseCAP users, and there’s no doubt that there’ll be more in the future. Details are as follows:

1. Heefi#7578
Been running SenseCAPs off-grid for 6+ months. They are the only hotspot I would use off the grid since they are the best, hands down. The online-based remote dashboard is clutch and the overall reliability of sensGANG makes OTG easy.
2. Murdock#0568
Hey guys, some awesome setups are showing up in here… very nice!
Here is my little SenseCAP M1 outdoor setup from Germany.
I had the opportunity to get two aluminum outdoor enclosures (sorry for the big blue letters on them so I didn’t think twice.
My biggest concern was the temperature, because of the small dimensions of the enclosure. So I took the SenseCAPs out of their cases and fitted them onto the enclosure mounting plate. To let them breathe a bit better I also cut out the fan area on the back. The next important parts besides the 3.5A PoE splitter were the antenna pigtails, it took me three versions to buy before everything seemed alright.
And as I finally realized, that there was more free space in the enclosure than thought in the beginning, I decided to additionally put one of my GL.iNet VPN routers into one of the housings. That way I was able to compare the CPU temps.
The difference was about +5°C more, not a problem in winter. But no one can watch the cpuCPU temperatures all day long during spring and its rising temps, so I wrote a little tool that continuously fetches and saves the important data from my SenseCAPs and displays it as diagrams.
(I am so excited about how the change to LHS will look like on that page :D)Finally, a 30cm (1 ft) low-loss cable on the top is connecting the SenseCAPs with their antennas, which are a 9dBi McGill and a 15dBi Airbatt OGN.
Both of them are mounted at 15m height (50 ft) on top of some mid-dense suburb roofs with free sight in all directions. The earnings are quite stable at 0.3-0.4 HNT/day and around 10HNT/month per device. I am so glad that I have chosen SenseCAP as my maker, the devices had no outage and were synced 99% of the time. Looking forward to expanding my fleet with some more M1 (or perhaps the first M2

3. BatsKnightLife#1680

A custom build case in a small place, Cochin, Kerala, India. Designed to withstand heavy wind conditions, and a hidden lock to protect in a public area.

4. Caleb#3831
First outdoor enclosure setup with Sensecap M1. Pole mount about 20ft on the rooftop. POE to box and 3ft LMR 400 out to the antenna. Have recently added silicone dry packs to keep humidity down and less moisture inbox due to FL weather.
5. Costi#0282
Agreeable neon eel….location is in Romania. It is powered by Poe and a 3 dbi gsm antenna at 11 meters high. Earnings are fluctuating but it’s okay we will see after 11 May. And of course my trusted security boy.
6. Doomsday13#6621
Just a few words about SenseCAP. One of the best highest quality made hotspots on the market. Hands down. I installed many, many different vendors and I always go to SenseCAP as my reliable source. Great company good people.. wow
7. WillHNT#8050
Teeny Grape Blackbird Cape Coral Fl’s average earnings are around .60 a day. Installed on a 30ft flagpole running Poe, Rokland 6dbi, using a custom enclosure with a 3d printed case along with 80mm fans, keeping the board around 100F in direct sun.
8. Milan#3752

My setup, SenseCAP gateway:

It is in the IP55 box and mounted on the roof pole. About 2 meters above the rooftop. Behind is my internet antenna, since I have no optic cable for the internet, my ISP provided me a link over the 5 GHz (Mikrotik) system at a distance of 5.75 km.
So far, I have 4 gateways (3 active, one waiting for placement), and this one is Great Nylon Donkey. Located in Vinkovci, Croatia. All four are SenseCAP M1 devices.
Right now inside the box is SenseCAP M1, a Flarm booster by JetVision (17 dB amplification), a Power supply for the gateway, and the LNA. Antena is McGill 9 dBi with only 1 meter of HF400 coaxial cable (cheaper version of LMR400).
In this picture above, still LMR240… pictures changes as the gateway improves.
And, right now, not a single adapter (as it was, male to female…).
Rewards are okay since I am living in a sparsely populated area. Earlier earnings were even better, but many things changed since the beginning.

9. dombro#5327
Hi guys, I’d like to share a pretty unique setup that I and 2 of my friends managed to set up on a wind turbine that belongs to a friend of ours.
It consists of a SenseCAP M1 hotspot, 5m LMR400 cable, and 8dBi antenna. The hotspot itself is placed exactly 46m above the ground and the antenna itself sits 50m above the ground. In the beginning, we installed a 5.8dBi antenna but upgraded it to 8dBi. Right now, earnings aren’t so high due to the lack of any hotspots closer than 20km, but we hope to see more coming  The furthest hotspot we witnessed is placed ~60km away from us. The whole setup was a ton of fun and beautiful sights.
10. TheWebFanatik#1017
My MOBILE HNT hotspot. Bringing the Helium network to the boonies of southeast Washington state!
1990 Dolphin MH- 8.3dbi-10m high- lmr 400- RX11 bias tee- sitting on a laptop cooling pad.

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