Hi. Remember that picture I showed at the user group meeting of the internals of the solar power control box? It sparked some discussion about using a DC-to-AC inverter and an AC power strip.
I took your various comments into consideration and had to find out for myself. So, for the last 3 days I've been running the box purely on battery. Day and night - starting at noon on Sunday. After 72.5 hours I manually turned it off. I think it would have run another few hours (5 tops), but the inverter was complaining of a low-voltage condition. It still pumps out full power until it does an auto-cutoff, but the constant beeeeeeep drove the office crazy. The point of this exercise was to verify that the system will run without any solar charging over a 72 hour period. The box worked exactly as planned! With solar charging enabled, the batteries will probably never run down in Southern Cali. This project will be deployed full-time this summer. Thanks for your input! -Mike -- Mike Outmesguine President, TransStellar, Inc. Co-Founder, Southern California Wireless Users Group (SOCALWUG) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL-IM: socalwug Yahoo-IM: mikeoutmesguine ICQ: 176284 Say: /OUT-mess-geen/ Direct: 1-818-889-9445 x102 Fax: 1-818-337-7420 Corporate Information: www.transstellar.com Weblog: http://wireless.weblogsinc.com Wireless User Group: www.socalwug.org
