Wow, you learn something every day. What I've learned today is that down
south harvests corn significantly earlier than we do in the corn belt. ;-)
What I've wanted to do, but have been so far unable to do is to have a power
source (be it a 120 vAC charger, solar cells, wind turbine, etc.) charge an
array of batteries (the guys at Mr. Solar said that I should use 48 vDC for
the DC systems), and then have a bunch of power supplies that use 48 vDC as
the source. I have a PC based MT for my AP and an Orthogon Gemini on my
primary tower. I can source 48 vDC power supplies for both.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mac Dearman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: RE: [WISPA] DC power suggestions
I have an 80' Rohn 25G tower on top of a 110' concrete grain elevator.
This
elevators power is giving me fits as they are flipping breakers on and off
as they are in full swing with all the corn coming in right now out of the
fields. I do have everything on UPS's, but need to move up the ranks for
longer run times to 4 larger marine batteries to accomplish longer run
times
when the breakers are flipped off.
Here is my question: Do they make a device that has multiple DC power
output
voltages (12/18/24/48) that connects directly to a set of batteries with
the
ability to connect multiple devices and if so - how do you keep your
batteries charged? I would like to run my gear directly off the DC power
instead of plugging everything into 120vdc and then have the wall warts
convert to the DC power. I currently have 10 radios on top of the elevator
and it is a major distribution point for the North and East legs of our
network.
Any and all suggestions are welcomed!!
Thanks folks,
Mac
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