Ah, that one got scrubbed so didn't get it. Terri Kelley Network Engineer 254-697-6710 x 1140 Farm to Market Broadband
On Nov 18, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Ryan Spott wrote: > I have a newer (today!) Schematic attached. > > ryan > > On 11/18/2011 9:03 AM, Bill Prince wrote: >> Really simple. >> >> All our solar sites are standalone. Where they are located is too far from >> the grid to make it practical in the first place. So there is no connection >> to the grid at all. >> >> That said. If you also had the grid available, you would want the >> connection to the grid to disconnect your solar charger. > It does not matter if your solar is disconnected or not. Your charge > controller will simply not allow current in from the solar when the batteries > are full. > > We find this happens when I do mid-winter maintenance. I run the genset while > I am there to power my shelter lights/laptop and radio. (I tell you, all I am > missing is the beer cooler in the summer!) > > After I leave the batteries are generally topped off and the charge > controller simply limits the incoming current from the PV Panels. > > ryan > > >> >> If you run the equipment directly off the batteries, it would not matter how >> they are getting charged. >> >> >> bp >> >> >> On 11/18/2011 7:43 AM, Terri Kelley wrote: >>> Basically a two part question I guess. In looking at solar, I want the >>> hardware to stay up during the transfer of power from the grid to the >>> batteries and back again. I assume that the momentary switch will drop the >>> power enough to cause a reboot or the boards to hang up which would mean a >>> truck to roll to the tower. I want to avoid that. >>> >>> So those of you who do solar, how do you deal with that switch over? >>> >>> I have talked to a few solar companies and so far they don't have a clue >>> other than sizing up the battery bank to operate an APC with the mikrotik >>> and other equipment on that. Since the APC draws a whole lot more than all >>> the network hardware this really raises the cost. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Terri Kelley >>> Network Engineer >>> Farm to Market Broadband >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL:<http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20111118/af06e040/attachment.html> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mikrotik mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >>> >>> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mikrotik mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik >> >> Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: DiagramMtSultan.png > Type: image/png > Size: 821906 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: > <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20111118/ac9c55eb/attachment.png> > _______________________________________________ > Mikrotik mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik > > Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://www.butchevans.com/pipermail/mikrotik/attachments/20111118/1a82d71c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Mikrotik mailing list [email protected] http://www.butchevans.com/mailman/listinfo/mikrotik Visit http://blog.butchevans.com/ for tutorials related to Mikrotik RouterOS

