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Power for remote telecom sites: sized on autonomy, not on nameplate

The short answer: remote sites are specified by autonomy hours at a given load, not by battery capacity. A site drawing 200 W with a 12-hour target needs about 2.4 kWh usable; at 80 % depth of discharge that is a 3 kWh pack. We size from the site load curve, which is why there is no single “telecom model” to quote.

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The specification is an autonomy number

Every telecom enquiry starts the same way: site load in watts, autonomy in hours, temperature range, and whether the site is grid-tied or solar-hybrid. The battery follows from those four. Quoting a unit without the load curve is how sites end up undersized, and undersized sites fail in the second winter.

Three things that change the answer more than anything else

  • Load profile. A constant 200 W is not the same as 80 W idle with 600 W peaks during transmit. The peak sets the BMS and the inverter; the average sets the energy.
  • Temperature. A cabinet in direct sun can reach 55 °C internally. LiFePO4 loses calendar life quickly at that temperature, so thermal management is specified before capacity.
  • Depth of discharge. Cycling to 100 % every night roughly halves cycle life. We size to 80 % DoD as standard unless the site is rarely off-grid.

What we make for this

DC systems at 24 V and 48 V, LiFePO4 with an integrated BMS, from 1 kWh to 10 kWh per site, with solar input for hybrid sites. AC-output variants from 300 W to 10 kW where the load is conventional equipment rather than a DC plant.

Protection covers over-charge, over-discharge, over-temperature, short circuit and reverse polarity, with dry-contact alarms for remote monitoring. CE, RoHS and UN38.3 documentation ships with every unit; for multi-site rollouts we work from your site list and return a per-site configuration.

Questions we get on this application

Straight answers.

Why not just use a bigger battery?

Because the constraint is usually cycle life and temperature, not energy. Doubling capacity to cover a bad winter usually costs less than fixing the thermal design, but it doubles the cells you will replace in year four. We would rather size it once.

Can the system report back to a monitoring platform?

Yes — dry contacts as standard, and RS485 or CAN on request. Tell us the protocol your NMS expects and we confirm it in the build sheet rather than promising it after the order.

Do you supply the enclosure?

For outdoor sites we quote an IP54 or IP65 cabinet as part of the system, with the thermal design included. A battery in an unventilated box is a warranty claim waiting for summer.

What is the lead time on a multi-site rollout?

First article in about two weeks after spec sign-off, production in four to six weeks. Rollouts are shipped in phases so the first sites can be commissioned while the rest are built.

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