What I did at the latest tower SWS built before I left, was I put a Bison Fab rackmount enclosure at the base of the tower on a short wooden pole. Inside the box I put a shielded 1U punchdown at the bottom. I also left slack for each cable bundled inside the enclosure. >From the box, there was conduit leading in to the shack / rack. If water got into the cable somehow, the damage was limited to the punchdown block. Also, this way I didn't have to run cable down the tower and then try and fish it through the conduit.
For coming in to the box, I just used a step-bit and a bunch of compression fittings. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > Sure. > > I have a bunch of APs, BHs, cameras, etc on the tower with cat5/rj45. Those > come down the tower. What do you terminate to? How do you organize them? > I prefer terminating to rj45 and not a punch block, but maybe that would be > better if the general consensus goes that way. > > My problem now is that going into an rj45ecs is nearly impossible to open up > when you can't get your fingers around all of it, so when there are many > tightly done together you're screwed. > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure I understand your question... >> >> Can you explain things a bit better? >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Josh Luthman >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > We've been using RJ45ECS for a while but on sites with many (>6) aps >> > this >> > presents a problem if we need to get to the cable. After some frost >> > bite, I >> > gave up and just cut the cable to reterminate it. I'd like to have a >> > better >> > solution for 1 and many runs. >> > >> > What has worked for you guys when winter comes around and you need >> > access to >> > the cables? >> > >> > Josh Luthman >> > Office: 937-552-2340 >> > Direct: 937-552-2343 >> > 1100 Wayne St >> > Suite 1337 >> > Troy, OH 45373 > >
