Yup, we do that all the time with the Meanwell AD-155C. I haven't seen the PowerStream before, but it looks like it's pretty much the same functionally. You can't really get much simpler.
On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:08 PM Josh Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > How about the Meanwell AD-155C? > > Or the Meanwell SDR-240-48+Traco BCMU360 which can use a single battery > and output either 24VDC or 48VDC? Combine these with a PacketFlux > SiteMonitor and not only do you have some monitoring (of voltage and > temperature), but you can also be alerted about an AC power outage if you > connect the contacts on the BCMU360 to the SiteMonitor's SWITCH input. > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:20 PM David Coudron < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> -- >> 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 >
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