[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Extra batteries for Baldi
Bart Kus
me at bartk.us
Sun Jan 8 18:00:12 PST 2017
Hello,
We had another power outage @ Baldi today. This site is very important
to the network since it routes up to 140Mbit of internet to the rest of
the network. Some of you may recall we also replaced the UPS there this
summer to help us deal with the bad power. However it looks like the
built-in batteries aren't large enough to sustain us through the longer
outages. I'd like to expand the site's runtime by a factor of 17 by
adding an external battery bank. I'd also like to use AGM batteries so
that they last longer and don't require any maintenance. The cost of
this will be $500 for the batteries, and then some small amount for
wires + connectors (< $100), which can be purchased under the
discretionary spending bylaw.
So, this spending request is for the $500 battery cost only.
I'd like to have this funded from project-specific donations and not
drain our existing funds. If you'd like to donate to this specific
project, please let me know in a direct email reply (no need to spam the
list).
Thanks,
--Bart
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