Philip, I run my 4801 and LinkSys wrt54gs directly off a battery string. The last two winters have been tough on my system. The bat voltage has go down to 10VDC and they all turn off until the sun came out. All survived except one 2 volt cell. The 4801 needed to be replugged before it started again.
Nick is right about getting the battery too low, it will destroy them. Use the deep cycle ones. The only other problem I had wad the file system got corrupted on the hard drive. I am very satisfied with my Soekris experience. However a 4801 in not a 5501! Just the same company. > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:18:52 +0000 > From: Philip<s...@christiantena.net> > Subject: Re: [Soekris] powering a net5501 from a car battery > To:soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > Message-ID:<4b88f18c.4080...@christiantena.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I understand that running the battery that low might destroy it, but > that isn't my question. > My question is, would it damage the Soekris? > or will the Soekris just turn itself off and ignore the increasingly low > input voltage. > I have no intention of running the battery that low, but say I go on > holiday for three weeks and the fuse blows on the battery charger. I > don't mind returning to a dead battery but I don't want a damaged > Soekris; they're too expensive. > > thanks, Philip > -- William Estrada Mt Umunhum, CA, USA HTTP://64.124.13.3 ( Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net ) _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
