We put the A90-GMT10-WM in an enclosure on rooftops with a fiber RDT.  #6
from the rectifier shelf output.  No power control is that's what you
looking for but it gives you fused outputs with alarms.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 12:15 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Note it will do 125 to 250 on AC
>
> On DC,  contact self welding can be a concern.  If the current is low I
> don’t think I would worry about 48 volts.
>
> I learned this lesson the hard way once at a solar site.  I used regular
> Home Depot light switches on some 48 volt circuits.  Was not too long
> before none of the switches were good.  I think they shorted on.  But maybe
> they burned and were open.  In any event ruined for certain.
>
> Use that relay to trigger an external relay that is guaranteed to work.
>
> *From:* Nate Burke
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 17, 2022 10:50 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Outdoor DC Distribution
>
> That looks intriguing.  DC power on the relays says only up to 30V
> though.  And Would still require external fusing for each link?
>
> I have a couple sites where I ran multiple fibers but only a single 12/3
> to the top to power an Edgepoint that was powering AF11's.  I'm upgrading
> more sites from AF11 to Bigger radios, and am trying to minimize having to
> pull new cables.  At most sites it's easy enough to just pull new cables
> for each radio, but at some of the grain elevators, the cable path is quite
> convoluted, and the installers yell and complain about having to pull
> wires.  Interestingly, they also yelled and complained about wanting to
> pull spares initially.
>
> The Mikrotik NetFiber9 will give me the extra 10G ports on the existing
> fiber, can power it off the Edgepoint, so that part is easy.  Just need to
> figure out the power to the radios.  Aviat can do POE, but not the POE that
> the edgepoint outputs, so I run it through a double set of GIGE-POE, one to
> take the UBNT 56v and convert to 2 wire, then a 2nd to convert the 2wire
> into Aviat POE.  But at that site, I have a large NEMA on a nice platform,
> so everything is DIN mounted in that with lots of room.
>
>
> On 11/17/2022 11:34 AM, Jason Wilson wrote:
>
> I'm just starting to use these for some VERY remote sites.
>
> https://www.tyconsystems.com/tpdin-monitor-web3
>
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> 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?
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