[cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!

[Pete Appleyard]

Claire, we're currently looking in to this as a possibility.  Our new
transmitter is going to be in a very rural isolated location and powering it
may be an issue.  We're looking at wind and solar PV attached to a large
bank of UPS's.

I'll let everyone know how it goes.


On 24 June 2011 00:23, claire penketh <clairepenketh at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>  What about a wind powered transmitter? Is that a possibility?
>
>
>  Claire Penketh
> Better to have given it a go than never to have tried at all
>
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 23/6/11, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!
> To: studio at ravensoundradio.co.uk, "cma-l" <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>
> Date: Thursday, 23 June, 2011, 21:58
>
>
>
> Interesting as all this is, it doesn't address the question of where you
> get mains power when there isn't any.
> We've run a complete RSL using solar and wind power where the combined
> sources produce 240V AC and you simply use a moderate amount of standard
> equipment.
>
> I've always been of the opinion that it is so wasterful to power all modern
> solid-state equipment from 240V AC when each one then transforms down and
> rectifies to a mutiplicity of DC supples of around 18V and below.
>
> How logical it would be if they all could be operated off 12V DC which is
> the universally-available voltage present in vehicles and relatively cheap
> bulk-delivery batteries!
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> *Ian Hickling
> **Partner
> transplan UK
> *
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:30:24 +0100
> > From: studio at ravensoundradio.co.uk
> > To: cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [cma-l] Mains power where there ain't any!
> >
> > Another one, Pocket Wifi, which takes any data sim, you need to know the
> > network ID (listed online), it has a mobile sized battery and connects
> > up to five wifi network devices. It's the size of a small mobile with
> > built in display and web interface is stand-alone so you can hang it in
> > a tree if the 3g is a long way off.
> >
> > Regards, Tony
> >
> >
> > CMA-L wrote:
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Eddie Stuart <eddie at kcr.fm>
> > >
> > > As a bit of extra knowledge, some Draytek routers (& no doubt those of
> > > other manufacturers) can use a mobile phone dongle for web access
> > > which would mean that you can easily have more than 1 computer web
> > > connected off-site.
> > >
> > > If like us, you use broadband to send your web stream to Canstream for
> > > webcasting, this can also provide you with a cheap studio based
> > > fallback should your broadband go down.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Eddie
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