Howdy gang
Y'all have been invaluable with every project I have worked on so I figure you would be able to help with this rather unusual use of the devices we use every day.
Okay, first in case you don't know, a WISP is a wireless Internet service provider.
In this case I am looking for a power solution for the small WISP I work for.
I finally went back to work yesterday, and I don't mind telling ya they worked me like a red headed step child, I am hurtin big time this morning.
So the power went out in (little- old whatever you want to call it) Las Vegas while I was in the shop programming a Mikrotik routerboard. No big thing, but for the IT engineer it was a different story. The generator didn't kick in, and if it wasn't for a dozen UPS devices on various servers and the fiber MUX the whole WISP would have crashed.
I asked them why the relied on a generator when they could use a system like Qwest uses, coincidentally running the same C&D sealed cell batteries I now have on my wind turbine? See:
http://fieldlines.com/board/index.php/topic,143288.0.htmlI don't have the exact numbers for their power usage, I can tell you that the generator is 10KW, they have at least 6 - 1KW UPSs
Couldn't the Wisp, employ a high quality inverter like these:http://www.affordable-solar.com/inverter-grid-tie-batteries.htm
which could take the power from the generator and charge a properly sized bank of batteries, replacing all of the UPSs?