[Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-17 Thread rahwayflynn
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Paul Kelley N1BUG paul.kelley.n1...@... wrote: The 12v circuit breaker with the shunt trip coil sounds like the most feasible, and besides it's designed exactly for the job. I'm researching that, as I wasn't aware of these devices. Sounds

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-17 Thread Ed Bathgate
Might I suggest a Shunt Trip Circuit breaker. I have used these in cases where power to an entire Mainframe Computer Room, was cut. This was linked to the fire alarm system, and killed the system outlets at the moment the Halon system siren sounded. It will remove your AC power and require a

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-16 Thread rahwayflynn
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Paul Kelley N1BUG paul.kelley.n1...@... wrote: and wondering about how to implement a site suicide command where power is disconnected from the entire remote package requiring a trip to the site to bring it back to life. I definitely want some way

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-16 Thread rahwayflynn
--- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Paul Kelley N1BUG paul.kelley.n1...@... wrote: For my application I'm wondering about how to interface the DTMF decoder output to permanently kill power to a site. I'm thinking I want to have it do something like deliberately blow a fuse... but

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-16 Thread wb8art
Paul, I have a question on this suicide control. Are you killing everything thus no ability to revive the site without visiting it? Not withstanding I would use a simple small repeater controler. Chose your poison there, but in any case, there are some that give you a small amount of logic

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Kelley N1BUG
Randy, I will be using a small repeater controller. What I want is some way to kill power to everything in the box... receiver, link transmitter, controller, the whole works. This would be a last resort in the event something fails in such a way that it is critical to shut it down, at a time

[Repeater-Builder] Re: Remote receiver suicide control

2009-04-16 Thread wb8art
Paul, So your thinking of a seperate RX with a control to kill the link. That with a decoder logic could drive the breaker to trip mentioned earlier. Randy --- In Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com, Paul Kelley N1BUG paul.kelley.n1...@... wrote: Randy, I will be using a small