[RVRC] QW outages possible - upgrades completed

[E. Drew Moore]

Craig,

Thanks for the work and time you put in to restore the battery backup 
system. Enjoy your Christmas and New Year.

73,
Drew, W2OU


On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Craig Saums via RVRC wrote:

> Thank you for your cooperation during the upgrade work on Tuesday.
>
> The new automatic switching equipment has been installed.  These 
> devices are known as EZ Gate 80 switches by Hamsource.  The backup 
> batteries are charging again and should be back to full capacity soon. 
> There is one unit managing the 440 radio.  The second unit is managing 
> the 2m machine and the control computer.
>
> The EZ Gate switches are rated at up to 80 amps carrying capacity. 
> The devices trickle charge the batteries during normal street power 
> operation and switch to battery backup automatically when line power 
> is lost.  These units replaced similar but lesser ampacity units that 
> had some problems with overheating (West Mountain Radio Powergate 
> 40's) due to our configuration.
>
> Please remember that the batteries will only provide reserve power for 
> a few hours.  Long term outages (like during Hurricanes Irene and 
> Sandy) will still provide challenges.
> 73, Craig  AC2FE
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 23, 2014, at 3:29 PM, Martin Friedman  wrote:
>
> Craig is working on the back up power this afternoon. There may be 
> times
> that the repeaters will be off the air for a short while.
>
> 73,Marty WB2BEW
>
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