We had a similar situation. No amount of grounding can protect you 100%. You'll lose AP's on direct strikes. Hopefully the surges will protect your cabinet guts.
We co-locate on a couple towers with an electric coop. They way over-engineer all their installs. As you might expect, their grounding policies are super strict. However, they tend to lose equipment far more often than we do. On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 8:28 AM Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > I've regularly used the 444 cards. Pretty much exclusively for years > we've been using the GIGE-APC-HV. > > On a tower with 9 devices, I lost 8 of them. We've had 0 problems on this > tower since adding the surge cards almost 6 years ago. A mix of > Ubnt/Cambium. The one device that survived was a Powerbridge (the shitty > panel) with one of the old surge cards that has an LED on it indicating > power. All 8 other devices needed to be replaced on the tower. > > What should I expect the surge cards to do? I keep reading that the card > should sacrifice itself so we can just replace the card on the ground > instead of the radio on the tower - better for a 1 person fix, way cheaper, > ground instead of tower, faster, etc. The tower owner is a big Motorola > R56 guy and gave us the thumbs up with how we did the grounding. > > Did I just get screwed hard for some reason? An employee of the tower > owner came out and had to fix some of their gear for their two way Motorola > radio stuff, too, so maybe it was just a really shitty day. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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