Phoenix and Meanwell both make good AC to DC power supplies that have battery managers available with low voltage disconnects. They also have temp monitors to prevent over charging and dry contracts for alarm states. You pick the battery size and the and size of the power supply based on your load and how fast you want your batteries to recover.
Once we went to this setup or power problems practically disappeared. Sure monitors tell you when per drops and if you know the battery size you can calculate how long you have if Power drops before you have to get a helmet or there if it doesn't come back. Once we got all sites on this setup Mikrotik routers became out biggest downtime issue. And they are decently reliable. On Sat, Jan 27, 2018, 9:44 AM Mathew Howard <mhoward...@gmail.com> wrote: > Give me a list of all the stuff you need to power, and I can tell you how > I'd do it... whether or not that's the best, or even a good way to do it, > is another matter. It is going to involve a pile of Packetflux stuff though > (of course most of that might already be there anyway... ) > > That Alpha Cordex thing does look pretty nice, and would certainly > simplify things. > > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Any of you folks who know both dc plant and even more know small wisp >> budget interested in looking at our gear and power setup and giving >> realistic advice that doesnt have a 10 different 500 dollar components >> combined with a full time linux guy and a full time coder? >> >> Id love you to do it out of the kindness of your heart, but i do have >> some advisory busget. >> >> Im just tired of the apc ups waste and super ghetto runtimes on batteries >> coupled with having to accept we are destroying runtimes by letting the >> apcs die..... please, somebody, please. Otherwise i have to go to the >> facebook groups, and thats like going to a mikrotik or ubnt forum. >> > >
