Thanks guys,

The Meanwell AD-155C is what we are looking for.   We spent a bunch of time 
digging around the Meanwell site, but never came up with this so this was very 
helpful.

Our larger cabinets/sites are set up much like Josh suggested with the Trango 
and Sitemonitor, which works great, we are just looking for limited parts and 
simple for this MicroPop implementation.

Much appreciated.

Regards,

David Coudron
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Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:57 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] MicroPops and battery backup

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]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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
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