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The KF4JVI Solar Powered Repeater |
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Our Repeater is
located at Tryon, NC on the NC / SC State Line. This is a local area
coverage repeater covering Polk County, NC KV4AL Robin Michael KF4RVQ Dan Moranz |
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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.
Solar Controller
All of the pictures below are 200K or larger to provide very fine detail.
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, and solar panels.
Below is the controller panel 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 necessary
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The Battery Bank
The Battery Bank consist of
four Deka Gel Packs
12 volt at 220 amp hour per battery.
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
8 days with out any additional charging form the solar panels.
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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.
The equipment sits atop of the
duplexer which is housed
in the lower part of the cabinate.
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The KF4JVI Repeater
equipment consist of the following equipment:
Yaseu - Vertex 2 meter DC only power repeater
S-Com V7 Repeater Controller
2 pair duplexers ~ 2 tx and 2 rx
4 batteries at 220 amp hours sealed gel packs.
Solar Controller assembly
Overkill on lightning protection
Green Box is Backup / standby power if necessary - so far not required.
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The Complete Solar Powered Repeater Station.