Was your water coming from inside the cables alongside the insulated copper? Or else where?
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Glen Waldrop <[email protected]> wrote: > I’ve been putting dielectric grease inside the RJ45 before I terminate it > on tower sites for a couple of years now. > > Cured my water problem with the electricals. > > I nicked the outer insulator on one of them at the lowest point, let out > about a quart of water. > > > > *From:* Josh Luthman <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:32 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Terminating cable at the base of the tower > > The water comes from inside the cable. I've really got no ideas at this > point - it's happened with every manufacturer and on different sites. No > pattern to it (yet, hopefully...) > > Those do look really nice - I like the idea of 3 cables per grommit and it > would simply be RJ45 again (as opposed to rj45ecs). > > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 > Direct: 937-552-2343 > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If this is going into an outdoor enclosure, why do you not want to just >> take the cable through a gland and then terminate the cable inside the box? >> >> I like these which take 3 shielded cables in one gland: >> >> http://www.alliedelec.com/lapp-usa-53621380/70233572/ >> >> use to replace the bushing in any of their NPT-3/4 or PG21 glands, like: >> >> http://www.alliedelec.com/lapp-usa-s2134/70123709/ >> >> don’t forget locknuts: >> >> http://www.alliedelec.com/lapp-usa-911372/70123717/ >> >> If you have trouble with water coming down the cable, first thing is to >> find where it is getting in and fix that. But you can do a drip loop and >> ring cut the jacket inside the box at a point where the water can drip out >> and not cause problems. Or at one site I bought some 1 ft shielded jumpers >> and some shielded inline couplers just in case. (I was stupid and >> assembled the box with a rack that had all the electronics facing straight >> up.) >> >> >> *From:* Josh Luthman <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 13, 2016 1:06 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Terminating cable at the base of the tower >> >> Maybe another way to put it is after you terminate the run, what do you >> plug in to? Going straight to RJ45ecs is a mess and going straight to the >> SS wouldn't be very cable management friendly and potentially ruin SS every >> time water finds it's way in, causing more problems. >> >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Mike Hammett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why are you going into the connector? Terminate the cable and that's the >>> end of it. >>> >>> >>> (Do you see what I did there?) :-) >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions >>> http://www.ics-il.com >>> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>> >>> Midwest Internet Exchange >>> http://www.midwest-ix.com >>> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"Josh Luthman" <[email protected]> >>> *To: *[email protected] >>> *Sent: *Wednesday, January 13, 2016 12:54:40 PM >>> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Terminating cable at the base of the tower >>> >>> >>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
