Interesting. What radios are you powering this with? Scottie
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mike <m...@aweiowa.com> Reply-To: WISPA General List <wireless@wispa.org> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:50:14 -0500 >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/ >--- >[This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as $30.00/mth. Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
