[MarinTeams] Channel 7 Repeater power outage restored

[George Shea]

LFPs are lighter, they deep cycle, most have internal controllers to avoid over/under charging, can get at least 4,000 recycles, NO MAINTENANCE, still work fine way past the 50% discharge limitation all other batteries etc. A little expensive, but getting cheaper, especially if stored inside. Maintenance free other than charging, and easily convert to solar when available.
I suggest solar unneeded if reliable source of power to charger keeping batteries topped up.
George J. Shea

    On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 04:13:39 PM PST, Harlen <hmallis at comcast.net> wrote:  
 
 Agreed and there’s some maintenance on them too.
At this point other than the expense, LFP batteries are so much better of a long-term solution.

On Jan 10, 2023, at 3:48 PM, George Shea <geoirishbox at yahoo.com> wrote:




AGMS that are recycled many times (as in solar installations) easily die after four years especially in cold weather.
George J. Shea

    On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 10:17:24 AM PST, Bill <wbs at hbco2.com> wrote:  
 
 We have four AGM batteries at the site in West Marin.  It has been solar powered from the beginning and has been running uninterrupted for 4 years, I believe.  Will have to check, can't count that high..

-----Original Message-----
From: Harlen [mailto:hmallis at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 9:57 AM
To: wbs at hbco2.com
Cc: marinteams at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [MarinTeams] Channel 7 Repeater power outage restored

That’s tough with all the gray weather we’ve had two you’re talking about a lot of batteries. It’s the storage that makes all the systems work.

> On Jan 10, 2023, at 9:50 AM, Bill <wbs at hbco2.com> wrote:
> 
> Power is back on at San Pedro.  All of Santa Venetia was knocked out during
> last night's storm, but apparently has been restored.
> Would be nice to have solar backup!
> 73 de Bill, AB6MT
> 
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