Description
- RS485 Soil Moisture Sensor
- Offers good stability
- Uses industrial Modbus protocol
This contact-less RS485 Soil Moisture Sensor is suited for more professional installations where long cable runs are a requirement. It offers good stability with temperature and power variation.
It adds a local voltage regulator to mitigate the voltage drop and RS485 transceiver to accommodate long wires, also reverse polarity and an additional ESD protection level is added. This is the easiest and the most robust way to read soil moisture and temperature values into Raspberry Pi.
- 1 x RS485 Soil Moisture Sensor
- Supply voltage: 5 V
- Bus can be run on: Both 3 and 5 V
- Default serial settings: 19200, 8-bit frame, no parity, 2 stop bits
- Default Modbus address: 1
Current consumption:
- Active: 9 mA,
- Deep sleep: 11 uA