Look at what companies with much more expensive equipment do. What do broadcast (AM\FM\TV) and cell companies do for their tower power\grounding?
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul McCall" <pa...@pdmnet.net> To: af@afmug.com Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 8:00:10 PM Subject: [AFMUG] a new one, I think... OK, so I am working with a grounding expert today, getting some opinions on a couple difficult towers, and one of the first suggestions he has for me as I mention that I am looking to do fiber / DC up this tower is… “Have you considered going solar up the tower?” (to eliminate power surges completely from going up the tower) Hmmmm… So my brain starts wrestling with that… Is it practical? Say on a tower with a Netonix DC powered switch running at 48v or 24v, powering 6 ePMP APs and 2 320APs, 2 Mikrotik Bhs, and a small Mikortik router. Would be about 50 watts maximum according to my quick calcs. Not knowing anything about solar, has battery technology developed enough that it would be practical (size wise) to have enough batteries and a charge controller up in a box on a tower? And what size solar panel would I need to drive that? Paul Paul McCall, Pres. PDMNet / Florida Broadband 658 Old Dixie Highway Vero Beach, FL 32962 772-564-6800 office 772-473-0352 cell www.pdmnet.com pa...@pdmnet.net
