Netgear and TP-Link work much better than the Mikrotik device.

On 25 Nov 2020, at 15:15, Steve Jones wrote:

It would be on the same phase since its on the output of the APC, I just dont know if the apc output will impact it. Ive heard all kinds of things some that it uses just the ground, some that its a neutral/ground loop, some that its riding phase. I dont know enough about them to know what they
actually do

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:56 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
wrote:

Mikrotik makes one. You do have to be in the same phase, keep that in
mind.

In our case we've got a DC plan on the ground and just pay $18/mo for a
Sprint data card.  It's a lot easier than running cable up/down the
building - at the very least we'd need a ~200 foot crane to be able to do
it. Not for just monitoring some batteries!

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On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 1:51 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
wrote:

You know those powerline to ethernet extenders? Are they reliable and
would there be any issue with them on a battery backup circuit?

We us apc smartups, we have a couple grain elevators where all our gear it up top, this will be more common as they mandate conduit at the sites. Instead of running everything down strapped to the site conduit we will have to put our own in. Thay length of run is no good for pvc and it runs us about 6k to put in 2 1-1/2 emt runs with breakouts. And that's only when
theres room in the chase. So we are going to just move to a single
dedicated 110v circuit run to the top with our generator cutover at the bottom. Batteries last longer at ground level where they're shaded in the summer and wind doesnt blow away all the heat in the winter so we are going to put the apc at the bottom and eat the power drop if there is much til we
go to DC solutions.
In the mean time we need to monitor the apcs. Many sites wont have
wireless visibility between top and bottom so we need an alternative. As I understand it apc output is square not true sinewave, would that impact those ethernet over powerline extenders? These only connect at 10mb anyway so throughput and all that are irrelevant, though it will be kind of nice
to have a data port below for troubleshooting.
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