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.

"Ross" wrote:

> 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.

I don't know the answers. But in the few stand-alone sites I've
seen, I think the air-conditioning might be the largest power
load.

John

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

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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]

>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.

I tyically design in a 200amp panel and have 100 amp service installed by the
phone company.

Someone else mentioned that the heaviest load is probably the air conditioners
- true.

MTSO's typically need more electricity!

--
John S.
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>I don't know the answers. But in the few stand-alone sites I've
>seen, I think the air-conditioning might be the largest power
>load.

More and more companies are going without air conditioning at all. A recent
visit to Tucson, AZ and the cellular company that I was doing the work for
there had outside cabinets without air! And no I won't mention the company.

--
John S.
e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net

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]
>

[posted via phonescoop.com]

sexyexotiche@aol.comspamfree (John S.) wrote in article
<20030916095651.23376.00000791@mb-m19.aol.com>:
>
> I tyically design in a 200amp panel and have 100 amp service installed by the
> phone company.
> --
> John S.
> e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net

The phone company installed your power panels?? Now that is a twist.

Mark

[posted via phonescoop.com]

>I tyically design in a 200amp panel and have 100 amp service installed by the
>phone company.
>

oops - should have said "100 amp service installed by the power company"


--
John S.
e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net

>
>The phone company installed your power panels?? Now that is a twist.
>
>

Just saw the mistake, I meant to say power company. And they just provide the
service, my people install the panels!

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John S.
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