I use even a smaller set up.
A 10 watt solar panel charges a 12V 20AH standby battery.
A home brew OCXO at 1MHz takes about 1 Watt and is periodically
disciplined by hand against a TBOLT or other GPS disciplined oscillator.
The battery also runs a couple of pendulum clocks which are being
monitored
against the 1MHz oscillator. The Clocks are being logged against the
OCXO
by an Onset 12 bit 4 channel data logger.
Eventually I will increase the size of the solar array and maybe keep
the TBOLT
backed up.
In Sydney we get a good solar input even in winter. It could keep it
running forever.
cheers,
Neville Michie
On 09/08/2009, at 2:55 PM, gsteinb...@aol.com wrote:
Weather projections for California this winter are WET, which
implies local power failures (lasting up to perhaps eight hours).
What do time-nuts do for backup power? I have one of the TAPR TBolt
systems along with numerous other toys (OCXOs that should probably
be kept running to avoid retrace errors). Automobile batteries? UPS
inverter systems?
Thanks,
Jerry
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