I bought two of the Northern Tool $79.00 15 watt panels, their $49.00 charge controller, a deep cycle marine battery from Walmart and built my own. So far, the "fully charged" light comes on every day. The battery should run my two radio repeater for more than a week. Might not be the club way to do it, but it works.
Mike At 11:09 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote: >Hi All, > >Sorry for the cross post. Time is short on this project and I need a lot of >help. > >I've never done a solar project. Never really even looked at them due to >the costs I've seen tossed about. > >Now I have a customer that's willing to purchase the initial equipment >needed to cover his community. The ONLY way into the area is a hill that's >within sight of my tower and NOT anywhere near power. > >I'll be able to just run a single MT board with two radios in it for this >site. One backhaul and 1 distribution. I'll guess that I'll have less than >a 2 amp draw (probably much less than 1 amp in reality). > >We don't often get long periods of no sun. Could be days of fog or low >clouds in the winter, but mostly we'll have a lot of sun. On the foggy or >cloudy days we often don't have enough wind to worry about wind generation. >I think. > >So, please clue me in on what to buy, who to buy it from (vendors welcome!) >and anything else I'm missing. > >Thanks all! >marlon > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >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/
