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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Tue Mar 13, 2018 4:42 am

Sorry for bumping but wouldn't it just be easier to put a small electric engine to serve has backup instead of an advance battery system?
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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:24 am

The thunderbolt 7000 and 2000 sirens were made by federal signal and they already had some kind of backup, well the 7000 had a backup system while the 2000 was mostly just gasoline powered. In the end, battery backup was much more efficient and cheaper than having a gasoline engine powering the siren, and the tbolt drew too much power to use battery backup. The tbolt was a great siren, it just wasnt future proof.

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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:29 am

Well I did have my Idea that you would call insane. it would be to have a box with water i it and have a strong radio transmitter by it. radio waves create heat so it would turn the water into steam witch would spin a generator wheel creating backup power when activated .
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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:58 am

Well thats interesting never heard of radio waves creating heat but ok

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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:26 am

jacob585 wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:29 am
Well I did have my Idea that you would call insane. it would be to have a box with water i it and have a strong radio transmitter by it. radio waves create heat so it would turn the water into steam witch would spin a generator wheel creating backup power when activated .
What kind of stuff are you smoking? First off I highly doubt this would work at all. Second why would somebody design a backup system which uses water and steam for a generator? Can't see this being very reliable.
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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:11 pm

SoundMaster 391 wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:26 am
jacob585 wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:29 am
Well I did have my Idea that you would call insane. it would be to have a box with water i it and have a strong radio transmitter by it. radio waves create heat so it would turn the water into steam witch would spin a generator wheel creating backup power when activated .
What kind of stuff are you smoking? First off I highly doubt this would work at all. Second why would somebody design a backup system which uses water and steam for a generator? Can't see this being very reliable.
I'm not smoking anything for your information. that is home grown insane designs. and yes I know that is an insane design.
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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:30 pm

Driving the motor wouldn’t be hard from batteries, but I also doubt it could be done for $3000. I think some manufactures have off the shelf VFD drives that will accept a dc input into their buss(all of them rectify to dc anyway). That could be powered from batteries but the major issue being it would need 3-400 volts dc for a 240v class three phase motor.

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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:14 pm

needless to say there is still NO market for a Tbolt backup unit. EOD.
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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:33 pm

It wouldn't be impossible to make a Tbolt with battery-backup. If you start with the B series, it would probably be easy to get a system running on 48V. Can't say that it will run as long as a 2001 or 508 on batteries though.
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Re: Tbolt Battery Backup Market

Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:13 pm

it theoretically could be done but it would cost alot of money and the batteries would last at most, for a month.

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