Best Repeater for Power Efficiency

[BlueDevil]

I am looking at installing a stand alone repeater system for private business use. This is going to be for my own business use so I am treating it as a little research and development as well. My plan is to power the repeater with solar and batteries.

I have done some searching on forums and Google to try and see if anyone has posted anything about the most efficient repeater for power consumption and I have not found anything. Does anyone have any information on this? Ideally I would like to use a repeater that doesn't consume much power while idling. I am looking at commercial grade, 50watt repeaters.

Any thoughts?

 

[kayn1n32008]

I am looking at installing a stand alone repeater system for private business use. This is going to be for my own business use so I am treating it as a little research and development as well. My plan is to power the repeater with solar and batteries.



I have done some searching on forums and Google to try and see if anyone has posted anything about the most efficient repeater for power consumption and I have not found anything. Does anyone have any information on this? Ideally I would like to use a repeater that doesn't consume much power while idling. I am looking at commercial grade, 50watt repeaters.



Any thoughts?

Daniels Electronics(Codan) designed to live on mountains with out AC power and operate across a very broad input power range using wet cells(no power generation) or solar/wind.

There is not much that will be more efficient in standby. Really though you want to find an older one, that uses crystals and not PLL/VCO to generate frequency.

Be prepared to pay though, new they are not cheap. You are probably looking at around 7-10k depending on options you need.

Edit: once in a while they do show up on Ebay... For reasonable prices. But if you are looking for new check here: http://www.codanradio.com/lmr/


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[freddaniel]

Most Motorola repeaters are unsuitable as they draw lots of power in standby, unless you buy a used GR1225 at 450 ma. Others are well suited for solar power at 12 to 14 VDC. They are the Codan as noted above, and also the Tait TB7100 at 280 ma; ICOM FR-6000 AT 500 MA like most repeaters, and last using two Ritron DTX-445 modules at less than 28 ma each works. This is a real high spec module with 1.5PPM stability at 460MHz.