To be honest, the only reason that I'm not using a deep cycle battery is because an ordinary car battery is free. The one I have is a 65Ah cast off from my diesel car. I'm sure that it's down on capacity compared with a new one, but it seems to be quite happy on constant charge and provided it can run the soekris and modem for a few hours it's good enough, and I think it will. Obviously if I have to buy a new one I would buy one that's correct for the job.
thanks, Philip William Estrada wrote: > Philip, > > I run my 4801 and LinkSys wrt54gs directly off a battery string. The > last two > winters have been tough on my system. The bat voltage has go down to > 10VDC and they all turn off until the sun came out. All survived > except one > 2 volt cell. The 4801 needed to be replugged before it started again. > > Nick is right about getting the battery too low, it will destroy > them. Use the > deep cycle ones. > > The only other problem I had wad the file system got corrupted on > the hard drive. > > I am very satisfied with my Soekris experience. > > However a 4801 in not a 5501! Just the same company. > >> Message: 5 >> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:18:52 +0000 >> From: Philip<[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Soekris] powering a net5501 from a car battery >> To:[email protected] >> Message-ID:<[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >> >> I understand that running the battery that low might destroy it, but >> that isn't my question. >> My question is, would it damage the Soekris? >> or will the Soekris just turn itself off and ignore the increasingly low >> input voltage. >> I have no intention of running the battery that low, but say I go on >> holiday for three weeks and the fuse blows on the battery charger. I >> don't mind returning to a dead battery but I don't want a damaged >> Soekris; they're too expensive. >> >> thanks, Philip >> > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
