Nice. Good price too. What does Forrest have that is similar? From: Jason Wilson Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 10:34 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor DC Distribution
I'm just starting to use these for some VERY remote sites. https://www.tyconsystems.com/tpdin-monitor-web3 Jason Wilson Remotely Located Critical Infrastructure Service Provider Providing High Speed Internet to out of the way places. 530-651-1736 530-748-9608 Cell www.remotelylocated.com On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 09:31 <[email protected]> wrote: I've used the PDU at the bottom of the tower. My only complaint at the time was the character limit on port description. I think it was 11 characters or some such....I had to come up with some cryptic abbreviations when I really wanted to say "Power to Telrad Compact 1000 - 270 azimuth". I think they were talking about fixing that in a future version of the base unit, but I haven't used any packetflux lately so I don't know if that's still an issue or not. If you're powering 100W radios then you'd be limited to 3 per PDU. A fourth radio would put you over the 8A total. That wasn't an issue in my deployment, but if you're planning 4+ sectors per tower then that's something to be aware of. Next problem is wire gauge. Anything bigger than 14ga is gonna have trouble squeezing into the connector on the packet flux PDU. Voltage drop on 48V /8A with 14ga is going to be pretty severe at 300ft, but if the tower is short then it's probably ok. I was deploying on 70ft poles, and we ran 16ga up to each radio so it was acceptable, but feeding the 8A input on the packetflux PDU on a taller site could be an issue. In any case I'd advise separate cables. I know it seems wasteful, but you can have any tower dude climb up there and put the green plug into the green hole. If you want the tower climber to strip and terminate DC cables then you'd have to be careful who you send up there. If you're dead set on a single power run then something with built in breakers is a good idea. Packetflux PDU would fit that bill. -----Original Message----- From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nate Burke Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 11:48 AM To: Animal Farm <[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] Outdoor DC Distribution Mikrotik makes a nice outdoor fiber switch with a handfull of 10G ports. Does anyone make something similar for DC Distribution? Run a single power cable up a tower and DC to multiple radios? I'm thinking like 3 or 4 licensed radios each needing 2 wire DC input and 10G fiber. Rather than running individual power wires for each one. I've used a UBNT Edgepoint S16, taking the 56v POE Output ports, and running them through the MCT GIGE-POE to extract 2wire power to run to the radio. But that's extra pieces needing a place to be mounted. Would the Site Monitor 5 channel PDU fit the bill? IT says 3A per channel, and 8A total. So in theory that should be able to provide about 140w per radio. Could put it in some sort of NEMA with a DIN mount. The Sitemonitor base is hardened, would the PDU be as well? Are there other options? -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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