Telecom towers and their power
I assume cell phone towers have generators, and battery backup for when the generators run out of gas. Does anybody know if there is a standard on how long they have to be able to provide power for...
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landyacht318 wrote:
I assume cell phone towers have generators, and battery backup for when the generators run out of gas.
Bad assumption.. NOT all towers are so equipped.
And no standards that I am aware of though each company may have a policy for those towers so equipped.
In the 1970's back before Cell Phones became popular.. We had a major power fail when a generator at Niagra failed and took out half the USA and a good part of Canada.. The power companies crossed their corporate hearts and told us they would install safety gear to make sure that never happened again.. As you may recall. IN the 2000s (abou 4 or 5) it happened again. Only this time it was a plant in Ohio (Michigan originally got blamed but it was Ohio). Turns out the power companies LIED, So they have once again promised.
But in the latter fail many cell towers went down due to lack of back up power as well. We had back up power where I worked, but that was only because I had my own personal back up.
