I have had nothing but heartbreak with wind. Solar always works well. Wind, no joy for me... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] Off Grid System Design Comments.
> We are installing a new tower very soon (in the next couple weeks) that > will be run completely off Wind power with a 400-watt wind turbine. Of > course we will have 6 105 amp hour batteries. Our draw at one of our > popular sites is under 375 watts. This using a PC-Based MikroTik/ HP > Procurve 2524, 6 Alvarion B NET Backhauls, 2 Alvarion VL-AU's, 1 Trango > 900 Sector. > > We switched some hardware in the MikroTik routers mostly the newer low > powered AMD cpu's and that made a hugh difference and going from the HP > procurve 2424m to a 2524 which cut the wattage from 90 watts to about 25 > watts. The Alvarion Units use about 200 watts total and the trango is like > 13 watts or so, (been a while since I checked them). The mikrotik router > is uing 60-75 watts. All in all, not to shabby as far as power > consumption. > > -Cameron > >> I wanted to get input from the WISPA list about a complete design for a >> off >> grid base station design base on a dual and quad radio system. We have >> been >> looking into this and have come up with a design using both wind and >> solar >> power that will keep a unit up and running 24/7/365. The idea is to have >> a >> complete package design so the base stations can be installed anywhere, >> but >> in order to keep the costs low it would be base on a max 48Watt design. >> >> Questions: >> 1. Is this something WISP would want in the USA, and would find useful? >> 2. Would you like this in a single package or parts (where a package >> would >> have a 1 year warrantee and parts would not) >> 3. What are you finding the power needs are at a typical WPOP? >> 4. Other Comments? >> >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
