[Cialug] Anyone have experience setting up solar powered wireless repeater outdoors?

[Dan Hockey]

the following should run run a router
http://www.dimensionengineering.com/products/de-swadj3

stay away from the cheap charge controllers <15a keep in mind that in ia
you have maybe 4 hrs of light in the winter so you need enough solar panels
to charge the battery in that limited amount of time.



--- On Fri, 5/17/13, John Lengeling <john.lengeling at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Lengeling <john.lengeling at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Cialug] Anyone have experience setting up solar powered wireless repeater outdoors?
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Date: Friday, May 17, 2013, 12:10 AM
> I am looking at an Internet
> connection but I won't have line of site at my
> house. I am able to get line of sight about 1000 yards out
> in an open field
> but I need it solar/battery powered and then a repeater to
> get the signal
> back to house.    I generally know what I need:
> 
> Solar panel
> Inverter
> Charge controller
> Battery
> Linksys WAP reconfigured with dd-wrt as repeater
> Antenna
> Enclosure
> Mast/pole
> 
> Looking for others who have done this and recommended
> suppliers/vendors and
> ideas.
> 
> John
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