Are you really saying that less than 500 bucks will build a solar system good enough for our radios these days?
Dude, if that's true I can open up a LOT more doors! marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <m...@aweiowa.com> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] solar site >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/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
