Hi All;
My father lives out in the Northern Cape next to the Orange river about 100 kms from Pofadder. Basically in middle of nowhere. The only way to get a telephone line or internet is via Satellite telephone.
Telkom offers the Spacestream Home product where you pay about R7k for the equipment and then a monthly fee of around R500, which includes 1 Gig of data.
This sounds ok, but the only problem is that he has no mains supply.
I'm an electrical engineer, so can easily setup a solar solution to power the equipment and this is exactly what I intend on doing. I thus need an idea of the power requirements. I do not find technical info on the web and the last person I spoke said that it requires 200W, which seems quite substantial. This person was not technical though and sounded like she did not know watts from volts from amps, so I do not trust what she said.
Does anyone have any idea of the power requirements of this Telkom product? Even better if you setup a solar solution for this yourself and can give me an idea of the power consumption.
Thanks in advance.
My father lives out in the Northern Cape next to the Orange river about 100 kms from Pofadder. Basically in middle of nowhere. The only way to get a telephone line or internet is via Satellite telephone.
Telkom offers the Spacestream Home product where you pay about R7k for the equipment and then a monthly fee of around R500, which includes 1 Gig of data.
This sounds ok, but the only problem is that he has no mains supply.
I'm an electrical engineer, so can easily setup a solar solution to power the equipment and this is exactly what I intend on doing. I thus need an idea of the power requirements. I do not find technical info on the web and the last person I spoke said that it requires 200W, which seems quite substantial. This person was not technical though and sounded like she did not know watts from volts from amps, so I do not trust what she said.
Does anyone have any idea of the power requirements of this Telkom product? Even better if you setup a solar solution for this yourself and can give me an idea of the power consumption.
Thanks in advance.