In relation to the sitemonitor base unit: It's perfectly fine with running off of the battery voltage directly, and can use a different voltage on each voltage input as long as they share the same common. (I.E. +12V battery and +48V regulated is ok, + and - 48VDC is not). Just make sure you fuse the input at somewhere around 1A.
On the solar side: I like the morningstar controllers, they have a new prostar MPPT which might even be better for those sites. Our solar charge controller support is also going to have at least a half-dozen or so additional controllers added to the list here shortly. -forrest On Jul 14, 2016 2:29 PM, "Duncan Scott" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > So historically we've been a mostly AC setup, but I'm trying to figure > out a DC setup for some of our smaller sites, and hopefully a solar > setup as well. I'm new to all of this though so I'm trying to see if > anyone has any written guides or part lists. Basic goal is to power an > airfiber or equivalent and A few Canopy or Ubnt APs. > > Here's what I've been looking at so far: > > 48v DC power supply > Traco TSP-BCMU360 > Packetflux Site monitor 2 base > Packetflux SiteMonitor 6 Channel Switch Closure Input > Neotonix DC switch > > This seems to work okay, the TSP-BCMU360 charges and monitors the > battery and the Packetflux Sitemonitor provides a network connection to > monitor the status. > > Issues so far: > > I'm running the site monitor off the BCMU, but this means that it's > input power is 48v, I want to monitor the voltage of the battery, but > that's just 12v and I don't think I can have different voltages plugged > into the two inputs to the site monitor. Another option would be to have > the site monitor powered off the batteries directly, but that seems bad... > > Is the packetflux stuff the best solution for this, or is there another > web enabling option? Seem pretty good so far, but I'm not even sure what > the other options are. > > The other issue is I have no idea what I should be using for > breaker/fuses for the equipment. A suggested list of DIN mountable stuff > I should have would be super useful if someone has it on hand. Also who > to order this stuff from. > > The other thing I would like to try is some kind of solar setup. Again > it need to be monitored remotely. Power draw would be as low as I could > manage. This is Oregon, so not lots of snow, but there are a lot of > cloudy days. Packetflux makes several items that integrate with Morning > Star controllers. It that a good way to go? Something like a TS-MPPT-30? > > Batteries are another thing. I'm also very curious if Lithium ion > batteries are feasible yet. This would need a different charger but it > would save a TON of space and maybe even be cost effective given the > smaller enclosure size that would be possible. > > Then there is the issue of what solar panels to buy. > > If anyone has any thoughts, comments, links, documents, etc. I'd really > appreciate it. > > Thanks, > Duncan > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >
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