I have a location on a mountain top that has electricity that gets knocked out every time a thunderstorm passes by. It's a long electrical line up the side of the mountain. There is a cabin at this location which is a summer home of a local person. I would normally just install a full solar system and be done with it, but the land owner does not want the panels in the yard. There are at times very high winds at this location as well so it would take a pretty substantial structure to hold the panels as well.
My idea was to use my normal solar battery and a normal ac charger connected to the battery. I would design it in such a way that the battery would cycle and charge similar to a normal solar system. for example charge to a certain voltage and then turn off, then start charging again once the battery drops. I don't think a continues charge would be good for the battery.
So the the question is, how do I get alerted that there is no electrical power and I am running on battery only?
I have a normal zonet router on the Ethernet side to provide wireless to the property owner when they are staying at there. Knowing this if elctricty is out that router would be off and the Ethernet side of things would show disconnected. So is there a way to monitor port activity? And send an alert if the either is down?
Thanks,
Michael