In Montana on top of deep snow mountains, we used thermal-electric generators run from
propane. Worked great and was very very safe. Ralph, W7HSG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Duehr" <n...@natetech.com> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:50:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Low voltage disconnect in Alberta winters and more On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:43 PM, Kris Kirby wrote: > > Generators and fuel are a lot of trouble. > > > (Apparently the snow drifts can get quite bad so we might need to borrow a > > snowmobile for the last > > 400 yards or so.) > > This is when you have to ask yourself: "Is it really worth the hardship > to keep this repeater on the air at this site?" Remember, any drifts that high are also high enough to block off low-level vents, exhaust pipes, etc. A recent (last year) failure of a site generator near here was attributed to the snow piling up so high the generator couldn't get air to run... -- Nate Duehr, WY0X n...@natetech.com facebook.com/denverpilot twitter.com/denverpilot
