Runs at 70 watts and it powers X3 AFXHDs, AC BH, AC Sector AP,

Solar is much less of a pain with UBNT cambium just sucks power so you
cambium guys have fun with that..

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 5:25 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> But your relay site is drawing what?  50 watts maybe.
>
> Big difference between 50 and 250 when it is a constant load.
>
> *From:* Timothy Steele
> *Sent:* Friday, October 5, 2018 3:11 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost
>
> Up in the NC Foot Hills x3 220 Watt Panels x4 Golf Cart Batteries keep
> Relay sites powered up nicely
>
> the pricey part is the charge controller
>
> Golf Cart batteries save you a lot in cost, but you will need to keep an
> eye on the water level inside the batteries
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 4:58 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> We do about half the solar panels as Chuck, and we only really need 10
>> days on the batteries. We have sometimes done less on both of those and
>> depending on the exact location.
>>
>> We are on the 37° parallel, and get no snow, and no really hot weather,
>> so we are in a fairly ideal solar environment. I'm not sure exactly where
>> you need this, but you must be somewhere around the 28° parallel? You
>> should get a lot more sun, but you probably also get a lot of cloud
>> activity. Your typically higher temperatures will derate your solar panels
>> as their output decreases with heat.
>>
>> You're burning 3600 watt-hours per day. That's a tall order for a
>> customer. I'm guessing this is a lot more than just internet access?
>>
>>
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>>
>> On 10/5/2018 1:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>
>> Is this Florida?
>>
>> In Utah, off grid, snow on the panels, worst case.  No sun for two weeks
>> this is what I have used that has been field proven.
>>
>> 20X load worth of panels
>> 2 weeks of autonomy worth of batts.
>>
>> I would say if you went 200 watts * 20 is 4000 watts of panel.
>> So $2K for the panels.
>>
>> 200*24*14=67 kWh of batt * 10 cents = $6.7K for batts
>>
>> You can get batts for as low as 6 cents per watt hour.  I used 20 cents
>> there.
>> Batts may be as low as half that.  Even less if you don’t have to worry
>> about snow etc.
>>
>> So $10K in Utah.
>> In Florida you do not need 2 weeks.  What is the longest interval of
>> solid overcast?
>> You also have longer days in the winter.
>>
>> Bill Prince has some figures for no snow areas.
>>
>> *From:* Paul McCall
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 5, 2018 1:59 PM
>> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
>> *Subject:* [AFMUG] Solar system rough cost
>>
>>
>> We have not done solar systems before, but am looking at it for a
>> customer.
>>
>>
>>
>> Need 150watt sustained, so figure about 250 to cover ourselves.
>>
>>
>>
>> Looks like we get about 5.5hours per day of “peak sun”.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any rough idea on how much it would cost for a system to do this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul, PDMNet
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> --
>> AF mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> AF mailing list
>> [email protected]
>> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>>
> ------------------------------
> --
> AF mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
> --
> AF mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
>
-- 
AF mailing list
[email protected]
http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com

Reply via email to