It would be on the same phase since its on the output of the APC, I just
dont know if the apc output will impact it. Ive heard all kinds of things
some that it uses just the ground, some that its a neutral/ground loop,
some that its riding phase. I dont know enough about them to know what they
actually do

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 12:56 PM Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Mikrotik makes one.  You do have to be in the same phase, keep that in
> mind.
>
> In our case we've got a DC plan on the ground and just pay $18/mo for a
> Sprint data card.  It's a lot easier than running cable up/down the
> building - at the very least we'd need a ~200 foot crane to be able to do
> it. Not for just monitoring some batteries!
>
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> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 1:51 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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