They do R56.
Look at what companies with much more expensive equipment do. What do
broadcast (AM\FM\TV) and cell companies do for their tower
power\grounding?
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*From: *"Paul McCall" <[email protected]>
*To: *[email protected]
*Sent: *Thursday, September 10, 2015 8:00:10 PM
*Subject: *[AFMUG] a new one, I think...
OK, so I am working with a grounding expert today, getting some
opinions on a couple difficult towers, and one of the first
suggestions he has for me as I mention that I am looking to do fiber /
DC up this tower is… “Have you considered going solar up the tower?”
(to eliminate power surges completely from going up the tower)
Hmmmm…
So my brain starts wrestling with that… Is it practical?
Say on a tower with a Netonix DC powered switch running at 48v or 24v,
powering 6 ePMP APs and 2 320APs, 2 Mikrotik Bhs, and a small
Mikortik router.
Would be about 50 watts maximum according to my quick calcs.
Not knowing anything about solar, has battery technology developed
enough that it would be practical (size wise) to have enough batteries
and a charge controller up in a box on a tower? And what size solar
panel would I need to drive that?
Paul
Paul McCall, Pres.
PDMNet / Florida Broadband
658 Old Dixie Highway
Vero Beach, FL 32962
772-564-6800 office
772-473-0352 cell
www.pdmnet.com <http://www.pdmnet.com/>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
