A Public Safety radio site are tower site(s) that are utilized for
police and fire communications. Their construction is very similar to
cellular that they utilize the same calculations for HVAC, power
consumption, etc. The only real difference is usually the height of the
transmitting antennas with cellular around the 100 to 250' and public
safety systems are from 300 to 500 typically, but this has very little
bearing on the AC power consumption.--
Mark


Ross <ross@rvdstudio.com> wrote in article
<BB8C804F.18A55%ross@rvdstudio.com>:
> Great, thanks for the answers.
> But Mark, what is a Public Safety site?
>
> Ross
>
> > From: askme@askme.com (Mark F)
> > Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
> > Newsgroups: alt.cellular-phone-tech
> > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 21:24:38 -0000
> > Subject: Re: Cell tower
> >
> > Ross <ross@rvdstudio.com> wrote in article
> > <BB8B8301.18A0E%ross@rvdstudio.com>:
> >> Does anyone have an idea how much electricity the equipment
> >> at a typical cell tower uses? Or what supply is run to them?
> >> The towers have a lot of equipment at the base that
> >> handles all the cell phone calls.
> >>
> >
> > There are so many variables that it would be difficult to say EXACTLY
> > how much, I can say by looking at an actual bill of one of my 28 channel
> > 800 MHz Public Safety sites my electric consumption is around 7000 KW
> > Hours per month that includes three (3) 6000 BTU Air Conditioners which
> > is the biggest hog of electric.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > [posted via phonescoop.com]
>

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