Confused - Raspberry Pi 3 and Solar

So I am confused - so many options…

Im going to use a Raspberry PI 3 B+ board (overkill but future proofing) to build a water tank monitor… Using the waterproof transducers.

Its a farm installation - I go up there every few weeks - but I want to monitor the water tank levels on the drinking water supply… Thinking I will just have it send me an email once a week of the level - or I might do something more fancy lateron…

Ideally I want to run this from on the roof of the large concrete tank - no power nearby… so having it powered by a solar cell would be ideal… but there are so many options - so many charger / controllers… In the future I might use the same device for PIR / Picture taking as well…

I don’t care about the size of the setup - its all hidden on the roof - but which solar manager power controller / battery would give me the best option of continually powering the raspberry going forward…

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Hi Kieth,

First off, if you are going to be powering your device from solar, you need to go with a less power hungry board than the 3B+ or you will spend a fortune in solar panels and batteries just to keep it going. The Pi Zero W uses much less power and whatever program you write can be transferred directly to a 3B+ if you ever get fixed power.

That said. I would use this: