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# The 120V AC is provided by an inverter mounted in the upper front of the subsystem behind the door. The 120V AC capability can be used by connecting an AC cord into the front of the inverter and ensuring that the inverter is turned on. | # The 120V AC is provided by an inverter mounted in the upper front of the subsystem behind the door. The 120V AC capability can be used by connecting an AC cord into the front of the inverter and ensuring that the inverter is turned on. | ||
# The DC and AC power can be used without the solar panels but will run down the battery at a rate that will depend on the DC and AC loads. During sunny conditions the solar panels could be used to provide power to equipment as well as charge the batteries. If enough charge is provided to the battery during the day and the night-time loads are small, the battery might last until the solar panels can be used again the next day. | # The DC and AC power can be used without the solar panels but will run down the battery at a rate that will depend on the DC and AC loads. During sunny conditions the solar panels could be used to provide power to equipment as well as charge the batteries. If enough charge is provided to the battery during the day and the night-time loads are small, the battery might last until the solar panels can be used again the next day. | ||
== Repeater Kit Wish List == | |||
A couple items PBEM would like to add to the kit if resources become available: | |||
* Handheld BEECN radio, so the repeater crew can monitor radio traffic. | |||
* Generator/battery combo, to be used to power the repeater if needs to be deployed when the sun is low in the sky on short winter days or obscured by clouds during other seasons. | |||
* Replace the large AGM battery inside the heavy black. | |||
* Replace the coax for the UHF antenna with low-loss LMR 400 or equivalent. | |||
* Upgrade the VHF radio so that it could also operate on both the 2-meter amateur band and the nearby VHF band used by Multnomah County for its quarterly VHF check-ins (MCEM 1 and MCEM 2). Each MCARES team has at least one go-kit that has this capability. Team leads participate in the quarterly check-ins along with various bureaus and at least one bridge. There is a chance that this would be mostly a matter of installing a UASI frequency template on one of the orange-box transceivers instead of the standard BEECN template. | |||
== Program/Policy Background == | == Program/Policy Background == | ||
