I was going to mention Xantrex as a contender. They used to be Trace Engineering. They make a decent inverter. Tripp Lite makes some special high quality high reliability inverters for things like ambulances if you need something a cut above. The cream of the crop is the Outback.
Greg On Sep 20, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Dorn Hetzel wrote: > I have had good luck with some of my servers using a xantrex inverter/charger > and a pile of wal-mart car batteries. It's not pretty but I have had no > power drops in a couple of years. Since the unit is designed for RVs etc, it > will keep the 12v pile charged even in the face of 12v drain, so you can > drive both 120vac and 12vdc loads off the same setup. It will charge the > batteries when they need it and ac is available, and float them after they > are charged, and use the batteries to provide ac if the mains ac disappears. > You decide how big a pile of batteries to attach... > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Patrick D. Nix, Jr > <[email protected]> wrote: > Whatever works best for reasonable $ :-) it's been a nightmare so far. > Starting to upset customers. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:55 AM, "Chris Hudson" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is this just while using the Jack? Via POE, 24V is the way to go.. IMO. >> >> >> >> Do you want to make a full conversion to DC? Or just replace the typical UPS >> setup? >> >> >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Justin Wilson >> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:52 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Power for tower sites >> >> >> >> Careful on powering most Mikrotiks with 24 volt. We have found, >> and verified with roc-noc and some others, that many of the MT boards will >> get hot with 24 volts to the DC jack and lockup and other weirdness. >> >> >> >> Justin >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Justin Wilson <[email protected]> >> Aol & Yahoo IM: j2sw >> http://www.mtin.net/blog – xISP News >> http://www.twitter.com/j2sw – Follow me on Twitter >> >> >> >> From: "Patrick D. Nix, Jr" <[email protected]> >> Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:45:49 -0500 >> To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> >> Subject: [WISPA] Power for tower sites >> >> >> >> Currently we are having some horrible issues with power at our tower sites. >> Our current configuration is that we have tripplite smart 500VA rackmout UPS >> connected to deep cycle marine battery. This seems to work OK for a month >> or so and then kills either the battery or the UPS or both. We then notice >> that the equipment at the tower will power off (battery shuts down for about >> 10 min) and then powers back on. This happens almost daily and in some >> cases multiple times in a day. I think it may have to do with the output >> volts of the battery not being high enough for the UPS to operate. We are >> desperately looking for other alternatives to what we are doing to resolve >> this issue. Most equipment will operate at 12/24 volt. 1x Mikrotik, 2x >> Trango AP, 2x Trango Link45, 4x UBNT Rocket. Any suggestions are >> appreciated. >> >> >> >> Pat >> >> Csweb.net >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: >> http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3908 - Release Date: 09/20/11 >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> 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: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
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