[Lowfer] WM "green"

[Michael Sapp]

Mike: Is the RF input power to the WM lowfer antenna 100mw?

73, Mike tts


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "N8OOU" <n8oou at meekfarm.us>
To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, & UK) and MedFer bands" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] WM "green"


> Hi J.B. I'd be happy to, it is a simple setup, nothing fancy.
>
> I have a 5 watt, weather proof solar panel, which is primarily intended to 
> keep an automotive battery topped off.  It is/was connected to 12V 4.5AH 
> and 6V 4.5AH gell cells connected in series to give me 18V to run the 
> beacon P.A.
>
> My first problem was after running "green" for several days, I found the 
> 6V battery fully dead and in a reverse voltage condition. The source of 
> this problem was the Chinese manufacture of the solar panel  put a nice 
> blob of solder on the ends of the wires, then just crimped the alligator 
> clips on the wire insulation using the blob to keep the wire from pulling 
> out.
>
> I had used that panel/battery combination last summer to run the electric 
> fence charger on my garden. With the connections weathered now, there was 
> no electrical connection to charge the batteries.
>
> I am currently running charge / discharge test on the batteries to see if 
> they are still good. They are a couple years old so I may be making a trip 
> to the battery store.
>
> I am hoping that 5W solar panel has enough "Cloudy Power" to keep the 
> batteries ahead of the 100 mW P.A. I you want, you can read about "Cloudy 
> Power" here ==> http://n8oou.meekfarm.us/SolarPowerProject.html
>
> I need to make sure this setup works because my final beacon location will 
> be about 1/4 mile from the house and AC power.  I hope that's the detail 
> you were looking for.  Thanks
>
> 73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek
>
> On 01/13/2015 01:40 PM, John Bruce McCreath wrote:
>>>   Factory connections on the solar panel were not properly soldered. 
>>> That kind of thing.
>>>   I had to switch the PA power back to commercial while I sort out the 
>>> "green" problems.
>>
>> Hi Mike....can you share with us details of your solar system?  My entire 
>> shack runs off an
>> array of twelve panels on the garage roof.
>>
>> 73, J.B., VE3EAR
>>
>> LowFER Beacon "EAR"
>> 188.830 kHz. QRSS30
>> EN93dr
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