We are installing a new tower very soon (in the next couple weeks) that will be run completely off Wind power with a 400-watt wind turbine. Of course we will have 6 105 amp hour batteries. Our draw at one of our popular sites is under 375 watts. This using a PC-Based MikroTik/ HP Procurve 2524, 6 Alvarion B NET Backhauls, 2 Alvarion VL-AU's, 1 Trango 900 Sector.
We switched some hardware in the MikroTik routers mostly the newer low powered AMD cpu's and that made a hugh difference and going from the HP procurve 2424m to a 2524 which cut the wattage from 90 watts to about 25 watts. The Alvarion Units use about 200 watts total and the trango is like 13 watts or so, (been a while since I checked them). The mikrotik router is uing 60-75 watts. All in all, not to shabby as far as power consumption. -Cameron > I wanted to get input from the WISPA list about a complete design for a > off > grid base station design base on a dual and quad radio system. We have > been > looking into this and have come up with a design using both wind and solar > power that will keep a unit up and running 24/7/365. The idea is to have a > complete package design so the base stations can be installed anywhere, > but > in order to keep the costs low it would be base on a max 48Watt design. > > Questions: > 1. Is this something WISP would want in the USA, and would find useful? > 2. Would you like this in a single package or parts (where a package would > have a 1 year warrantee and parts would not) > 3. What are you finding the power needs are at a typical WPOP? > 4. Other Comments? > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
