[HamWAN PSDR] VOTE: Extra batteries for Baldi

[Bart Kus]

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