HUAWEI 5G CPE Pro - Battery Backup

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kgotson

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Hi Guys

With Eskom showing now signs of letting us have a good weekend I need to make arrangements for when the Power does go off. I would like to keep the router up as long as possible and I use to have a battery back up on the B315 router before switching over to the 5G router.

Does anyone know what options are available to me to keep the router powered during loadshedding?
 
Just keep in mind, it could be that the RAIN tower does not have battery backup.
I know someone powered their router using the car's 12v socket. Perhaps first test with that during load shedding to make sure the tower has backup power.
 
Unfortunately the tower I connect to does not have battery backup as proven this morning. Rode past it on the way to work 05:00 whole area was without power.
 
I dont understand how they dont even have a simple inverter setup.

Thats very expensive equipment and the constant on and off is not good, never mind the power spikes
 
Rain 5G towers does not have battery backup unfortunately.

I'm lucky to be covered by 2 towers. Closest one is gets loadshed with my area. The secondary tower I catch follows my area time line for loadshedding so it switches between the two.

The cheapest most effective solution is this

www.communica.co.za

PSU CCTV 12VDC 3A

Power Supply Unit with Battery Backup • 12VDC 3A UPS • with Battery Compartment for 7Ah Battery (Battery NOT Included) Overview Features Input voltage can vary from 90VAC to 265VAC without affecting the output voltage. (output voltage remains constant) Input and output fused Short circuit...
www.communica.co.za www.communica.co.za
www.communica.co.za

BATT 12V7 RITA F1

12V 7AH Lead-Acid Rechargeable Battery • L=151 W=65 H=100mm
www.communica.co.za www.communica.co.za

Works out R540 and you are sorted. Get it from Communica. It's an auto switch psu so instantly switches to battery power when mains drop and auto switches back to mains when it comes back. Does not drop the power so it works exactly like UPS but a 12V solution so much more efficient.

This solution runs 3 routers for me.

1x Huawei Fibre ONT
1x Tenda AC10 router
1x Huawei H112 5G CPE
 
Leno said:
I dont understand how they dont even have a simple inverter setup.

Thats very expensive equipment and the constant on and off is not good, never mind the power spikes
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The 5G drops with power outages but the 4G stays a while on battery backup. I'm guessing the 5G equipment will drain the batteries too fast. Rain towers carry quite a bit of users. Remember Vodacom users roam on Rain towers too.
 
Wow found a link that estimates 2-6KW for a tower!

www.quora.com

What's the power consumption of the average cell phone tower/site?

Answer (1 of 6): cell site a term for the tower technology that provides singal to mobile phones , 5G Cell sites are many incountrys that now have 5G , and faster speeds for internet use, mobile 5g penetration rates are all areas must have penetration for 100% 5g connection , the 5g penetration r...
www.quora.com www.quora.com

I am going to ask our building manager for the electricity useage for the towers on our roof to double check
 
Leno said:
Wow found a link that estimates 2-6KW for a tower!

www.quora.com

What's the power consumption of the average cell phone tower/site?

Answer (1 of 6): cell site a term for the tower technology that provides singal to mobile phones , 5G Cell sites are many incountrys that now have 5G , and faster speeds for internet use, mobile 5g penetration rates are all areas must have penetration for 100% 5g connection , the 5g penetration r...
www.quora.com www.quora.com

I am going to ask our building manager for the electricity useage for the towers on our roof to double check
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Even more when they use Aircons for cooling and not air or other methods.....

More on SA cell towers

A look inside a Telkom LTE base-station A few days ago, I stumbled across some Telkom guys busy doing what they said was a complete LTE re-fit at one of the multi-operator ATC base-stations in my area. It's the same station as appeared in this post. I was interested in this station because...
mybroadband.co.za mybroadband.co.za
 
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PAYBACK said:
Just glad there is some sort of redundancy. Wont have ADSL for much longer.
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Yeah what are the speeds like though. Probably not good. The Indoor CPE does 4x4 mimo on 4G so I'm sure the ODU should too at least there is something.
 
cavedog said:
Yeah what are the speeds like though. Probably not good. The Indoor CPE does 4x4 mimo on 4G so I'm sure the ODU should too at least there is something.
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Speed test above on 4G. Better than my old ADSL. But I have been spoilt over the last two weeks :cool:
 
I can attest to 5G not being available during loadshedding, the tower in my area went dead yesterday and only 4G was available on the router, however no internet connection
 
kgotson said:
I can attest to 5G not being available during loadshedding, the tower in my area went dead yesterday and only 4G was available on the router, however no internet connection
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Yes 5G has no backup batteries at all they use the batteries for 4G only.

When 5G drops you need to restart the router or switch mobile data on and off in the CPE to get connectivity again. It does work on 4G fall back until those batteries die then no service.

Maybe @rpm or @Bradley Prior can ask Rain why they do not use the batteries in the towers for 5G? Sad because no power means no service unless you have multiple towers covering your area and loadshedding schedules differ.
 
cavedog said:
The cheapest most effective solution is this

www.communica.co.za

PSU CCTV 12VDC 3A

Power Supply Unit with Battery Backup • 12VDC 3A UPS • with Battery Compartment for 7Ah Battery (Battery NOT Included) Overview Features Input voltage can vary from 90VAC to 265VAC without affecting the output voltage. (output voltage remains constant) Input and output fused Short circuit...
www.communica.co.za www.communica.co.za
www.communica.co.za

BATT 12V7 RITA F1

12V 7AH Lead-Acid Rechargeable Battery • L=151 W=65 H=100mm
www.communica.co.za www.communica.co.za
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Thanks for this useful info!

Do I have to buy a male DC to DC cable separately, to connect my Rain 5G router to the unit? I'm guessing you just power the battery pack using the charger supplied with the router.
 
cavedog said:
Rain 5G towers does not have battery backup unfortunately.

I'm lucky to be covered by 2 towers. Closest one is gets loadshed with my area. The secondary tower I catch follows my area time line for loadshedding so it switches between the two.

The cheapest most effective solution is this

www.communica.co.za

PSU CCTV 12VDC 3A

Power Supply Unit with Battery Backup • 12VDC 3A UPS • with Battery Compartment for 7Ah Battery (Battery NOT Included) Overview Features Input voltage can vary from 90VAC to 265VAC without affecting the output voltage. (output voltage remains constant) Input and output fused Short circuit...
www.communica.co.za www.communica.co.za
www.communica.co.za

BATT 12V7 RITA F1

12V 7AH Lead-Acid Rechargeable Battery • L=151 W=65 H=100mm
www.communica.co.za www.communica.co.za

Works out R540 and you are sorted. Get it from Communica. It's an auto switch psu so instantly switches to battery power when mains drop and auto switches back to mains when it comes back. Does not drop the power so it works exactly like UPS but a 12V solution so much more efficient.

This solution runs 3 routers for me.

1x Huawei Fibre ONT
1x Tenda AC10 router
1x Huawei H112 5G CPE
Click to expand...

How do you connect the PSU to your routers? struggling to visualise this?
 
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