Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread drake . chamberlin
; >  Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > > -Original Message- > From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On > Behalf Of drake.chamber...@redwoodalliance.org > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:53 AM > To: re-w

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread Daniel Young
nalTM: Cert #031508-90 NABCEP Certified Solar Heating InstallerTM: Cert #SH031409-13 From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Glenn Burt Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 1:15 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm Sounds lik

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread Glenn Burt
ase excuse grammar and typos. -Original Message- From: "drake.chamber...@redwoodalliance.org" Sent: ‎2/‎12/‎2015 9:52 To: "re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org" Subject: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm We are looking for an audible alarm that will not drive the pets

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread Max Balchowsky
ance.org" To: re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 6:52 AM Subject: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm We are looking for an audible alarm that will not drive the pets crazy if it stays on for hours when no one is home. At present, only a red indicator li

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread Ray Walters
We looked into this recently as well, and didn't find any good options that didn't involve us making a custom gizmo of some type. The closest off the shelf product I found was just an AC smoke alarm that chirps when it loses AC. I think some of the little UPS boxes also have an alarm when th

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread Dana
e-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Subject: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm We are looking for an audible alarm that will not drive the pets crazy if it stays on for hours when no one is home. At present, only a red indicator light goes on when the grid is down. It would need to run off 120 VAC. Does a

[RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm

2015-02-12 Thread drake . chamberlin
We are looking for an audible alarm that will not drive the pets crazy if it stays on for hours when no one is home. At present, only a red indicator light goes on when the grid is down. It would need to run off 120 VAC. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Drake ___

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm Communicator

2011-11-27 Thread Bill Loesch
6:29 AM Subject: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm Communicator > Hello Wrenches, > > I had a request from a local alarm company for a small PV - Battery > system to power an alarm communicator system. The parameters given > are as follows > > 12 V DC power supply to the gear &g

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm Communicator

2011-11-26 Thread Jeff Yago
Carl, We designed and built a custom solar power system for an alarm company about 4 years ago. They were installing the system on an un-occupied warehouse that had no electricity. The two things we had to address was make sure we had correct voltage/current battery charging arrangement as we di

Re: [RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm Communicator

2011-11-24 Thread maver...@mavericksolar.com
Carl, Alarm systems typically already have batteries. Usually 9 or 12 Ah VRLA. For an off-grid version, I would size the battery based on the once a year event where the alarm is going off non stop for two days. That should also give some cloudy weather storage. If possible, get all their eq

[RE-wrenches] Off Grid Alarm Communicator

2011-11-24 Thread Carl Adams
Hello Wrenches, I had a request from a local alarm company for a small PV - Battery system to power an alarm communicator system. The parameters given are as follows 12 V DC power supply to the gear standby load 28 mA - this is the majority of the time Operation peak load 2A for 2 minutes - once