You know those powerline to ethernet extenders? Are they reliable and would there be any issue with them on a battery backup circuit?
We us apc smartups, we have a couple grain elevators where all our gear it up top, this will be more common as they mandate conduit at the sites. Instead of running everything down strapped to the site conduit we will have to put our own in. Thay length of run is no good for pvc and it runs us about 6k to put in 2 1-1/2 emt runs with breakouts. And that's only when theres room in the chase. So we are going to just move to a single dedicated 110v circuit run to the top with our generator cutover at the bottom. Batteries last longer at ground level where they're shaded in the summer and wind doesnt blow away all the heat in the winter so we are going to put the apc at the bottom and eat the power drop if there is much til we go to DC solutions. In the mean time we need to monitor the apcs. Many sites wont have wireless visibility between top and bottom so we need an alternative. As I understand it apc output is square not true sinewave, would that impact those ethernet over powerline extenders? These only connect at 10mb anyway so throughput and all that are irrelevant, though it will be kind of nice to have a data port below for troubleshooting.
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