Re: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread John J. Thomas
Mac, have you looked at these? http://www.apcc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=203 John Message- >From: Mac Dearman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, July 9, 2006 07:34 PM >To: ''WISPA General List'' >Subject: RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help > > >Can anyone give me a lead as to what I

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Brian Webster
Mac, Understood, volts is volts and need respect :-). Might think about doing it with some sort of switches or fuses on the external lines to allow you to change batteries safely and without having to take all of them off line at any one time. With fuses at the right rating they would pop

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
Do a quick search on ebay for "carrier access" and you should be able to find it for less. As to the too big part, -:) Did you try looking at the tripplite line of products ? http://www.poweruptech.com/tl_inv.html Faisal Imtiaz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAI

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Mac Dearman
Brian, I guess I am an idiot because I hadn't thought of that! I don't have any (hardly) of my APC UPS's overloaded and it would probably be pretty easy to do that. I bought some rack mount Compaq 3000Watt UPS's for the NOC and tied 4 Gel Cell 100lb batteries to each of those Compaq's. That has

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Mac Dearman
That would work, but there are a couple problems with that particular one: 1. 3½” high by 17” wide by 12” deep (it’s too big) 2. Its $245.00 ;-) Mac -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Faisal Imtiaz Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 10:01 PM

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Faisal Imtiaz
How about something like this:- http://cgi.ebay.com/48-VDC-82-Watt-Rectifier-Battery-UPS-48VDC-1-5-Amps_W0QQ itemZ9729838061QQihZ008QQcategoryZ11175QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Faisal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mac Dearman

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Brian Webster
Mac, Can you tap in to the battery lines on the UPS and add extra external batteries to extend the run time? This would give you the advantage of conditioned power and automatic switch over of the UPS, and you would still have any other management features of the UPS still available to you.

RE: [WISPA] DC Inverter help

2006-07-09 Thread Mac Dearman
Can anyone give me a lead as to what I am looking for? I believe this http://tinyurl.com/lje7s is what I need, but I don't think I need 400Watts as all I will be pulling at several new tower sites are a few RB532's with their radios. I think I ought to keep the RB532s powered at 48VDC as they will

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