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The KF4JVI Solar Powered
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Our Repeater is located at Tryon, NC on
the NC / SC State Line. This is a local area coverage repeater. |
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Our Solar Panels Array using 4
panels
to produce approx. 12 amps DC at 12 Volts under full
sun.
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This is showing the wiring and
the junction box.
Proper grounding of the equipment allows it to live
through electrical storms
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Description of Our Solar Panels Array
Four Semiens M55 Solar Panels connected in Parallel.
Each Panel Produces 55 watts of 12 volt electricity at 3.5 amperage.
Connected in Parallel, the
four panels produce a maximum
electrical charging output of 12 volts at 14
amps.
If on an average of only four
hours of direct sunlight per day,
this will give us approximately 56 amp
hours of battery charge daily.
WARNING
All of the pictures below are 200K or larger to provide very fine detail.
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Ananda Power Technologies
Solar Controller
The solar controller automatically regulates the charge to
the battery bank.
This provides an automatic
float charging or disconnect of the
Solar panels when the battery bank
reaches full charging capacity.
The Controller Box also provides the
circuit breakers to isolate the Radio,
Batteries, solar panels and AC
backup power supply.
Above and below is the controller pannel for the battery pack
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Photo below is the fusing for
the battery pack.
Below that is a sub controller for aux power if
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The Battery Bank
The Battery Bank consist of four Deka Gell Packs - 12 volt at 220 amp hour batteries.
Connected in parallel, this
provides 880 amp hours of electrical storage at 12 volts.
This
storage capacity will power the KF4JVI radio repeater for approximately
14
days with out any additional charging form the solar panels.
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WARNING
All of the above pictures are 200K or larger to provide very fine detail.
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Our Antenna mounted atop a 35
foot telephone pole.
Our antenna is made by Cellways
Inc.
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Work crew in the lower left photo above
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Overall View of the Repeater Station.
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The Actual Layout of the equipment of this repeater site.
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The KF4JVI Repeater equipment
consist of the following equipment:
Yaseu Repeater - Vertex 2 meter
S-Com V7 Repeater Controller
2 pair duplexer - 2 tx and 2 rx
4
batteries at 220 amphours sealed gel packs.
Solar Controller assembly
Overkill on lightning protection
Backup / standby power if necessary - so
far not required.
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The Complete Repeater Station.
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