Just got off the phone with a customer that's probably the closest one to that tower. The tree in his front yard was taken down at the same time as the storm Friday - with no winds. I'm guessing that was the strike.
Hopefully we can last more than 6 years this time around :) Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 9:48 AM Eric Muehleisen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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