We are starting to venture into some neighborhoods where MicroPop setup might make sense. We think we will have a small foot print, rooftop mounted configuration with one (in some instances, two) backhaul radios and one access point. From our testing, we believe we can run this successfully from a PowerBox Pro, as all devices are running at 48V. Our thought is we'll get power from the subscriber, run POE to the roof, hang the PowerBox Pro on the same structure as the AP and Backhaul. Our challenge is this, we'd like to have battery backup and be able to get alerts when power is lost. In our normal cabinets, we use the Meanwell power supply and DR UPS40 and run the whole cabinet at 24V as we have some 24V and some 48V equipment. The Netonix switch does the conversion for the 48V devices. However, that is overkill for the little amount of equipment we want at these MicroPops, so we are trying a smaller, simple battery backup. We can use something like the Powerstream PST-SP48-150, which gives us our AC to DC conversion, and provides UPS. We can string together 4 small 12V SLA batteries and put that in a small cabinet at the subscriber. Anyone have any experience with these Powerstream devices? We can monitor the voltage and set alerts when the voltage drops knowing we are on battery.
Otherwise, we could do something like a simple a consumer UPS, but we'd lose any monitoring capability unless we trigger on the customers router which wouldn't be on UPS. We'd have to assume if it was offline but the PowerBox was online, we were running on battery and make a call to the customer to confirm. We'd get longer run time on the Powerstream solution, but it would be a bit more complicated. This is meant to be a low volume, low cost solution for the end of the line locations. The PowerBox would give us the ability to switch or route and give us the monitoring we need. Anyone doing something line this? Any alternatives to the Powerstream that make things easier? Unfortunately we can't see that Meanwell has a 48V solution, otherwise we have had good luck with their equipment. Regards, David Coudron
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