Availability of the system

Up to now the system had not been off air because of energy reasons.

However the generator does tremendous work!

Note: the generator comes on automaticly as soon as the solar regulator wants to seperate the load from the battery (take the transmitter off-air!) It rescues the situation when the solar system fails, and the listener on the radio does not even notice anything!

During the year 1998  (rainy season)  the generator worked for the following hours every week:

  1st week 2nd week 3rd week 4th week
March 3 6 6 4
April 15 12 20 18
Mai 17 53 33 20
June 40 24 10 20

If you compare the rainfall and the needed operation hours of the generator you see how close both are correlated!

In June we have less rain, but thicker clouds!

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