Just curious... what voltage are you feeding into the injector?

I wonder if maybe if you're starting at 56V, then adding a bit of inductive
surge effects due to the cable and sync pulse thing.  I could see this
surging into 60 volts for sure... not sure where Chuck's suppressors clamp
at.

-forrest

On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 7:10 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, what do you think? Based on my test, it's definitely the sync pulse
> disrupting the GigE data, at least on the 7/8 pair I'm guessing.
>
> Is it possible that we have HV marked modules that are in fact not HV? I
> assume you have two different assembly lines for regular and HV? Or do you
> just do batches of one or the other? Either one would probably rule that
> out.
>
> It would really suck to have to pull out the SS's to get GigE on the 450
> when we finally get 30MHz channel support. No surge suppression at all
> scares me. 20MHz channel width really doesn't need gigabit which is why
> I've never bothered with it.
>
> Maybe Forrest would be willing to send you one of his new
> PowerInjector+Sync modules and a SyncPipe for debugging?
>
> And with the 450i taking power on all four pairs, I could see the sync
> pulse causing the SS to clamp on the 10/100 data pairs, too. Meaning
> 100Mbps won't work either. Just speculation, but it seems logical.
>
> What else could you do other than let say 90 volts though instead of, what
> is it on the HV now, 65 or 70 volts? Or maybe some slightly slower reacting
> diodes? But I guess either case opens up the potential (pardon the pun) for
> damage.
>
>
> On 9/9/2016 7:16 PM, Chuck McCown wrote:
>
> You are correct, the POE version adds the transformer.
>
> *From:* George Skorup <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Friday, September 09, 2016 5:51 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Gigabit Ethernet on Cambium 450i only running
> 100Mbps
>
> Uh oh. I figured it out. It was as I suspected. The SS is clamping due to
> the sync pulse. Maybe the change that Forrest made with the Rev i0
> SyncInjectors/PowerInjector+Sync because of the 450i's finicky handling
> of the pulse over long runs? I have no idea. So much for GigE + sync over
> power I guess. I don't have any Rev i0 Gigabit SyncInjectors to test with,
> but I assume I'd get the same result.
>
> I set the AP back to negotiate GigE. Turned off the sync on the injector
> port feeding that radio. Rebooted the AP. Link stays up at gigabit with no
> problems. Then I turned the sync pulse back on and the link dropped almost
> instantly.
>
> 18:33:42 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:33:49 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:33:53 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:33:55 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
>
> .... sync pulse back on
>
> 18:35:31 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:35:34 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:35:35 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:35:42 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:35:43 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:35:46 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:35:47 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:35:52 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
>
> The GigE-APC's I have at this site are definitely HV's. That's all I have
> ever ordered. They are all marked HV in sharpie on the handle. I'm feeding
> that cluster with regulated 24VDC from a RSD150C-24.
>
> On 9/9/2016 6:34 PM, George Skorup wrote:
>
> Uh.. hmm. I have a 5.7 450 sector running at a tower without any customers
> on it yet. It's powered and timed from a new GigE PowerInjector+Sync.
> GigE-APC-HV at the bottom. No SS on top. ~225 feet of Shireen 1042 cable.
>
> I just logged into it and set it to Auto 1000F/100F/etc. and rebooted.
> Does the same shit.
>
> 18:14:07 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:14:20 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:14:21 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:14:26 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:14:27 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:14:30 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:14:31 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:14:40 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
>
> I also just set it back to Auto 100F (disabling gigabit negotiation) and
> it does this...
>
> 18:21:34 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:21:47 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 1G, full duplex)
> 18:21:48 interface,info ether6 link down
> 18:21:52 interface,info ether6 link up (speed 100M, full duplex)
>
> So, looks like the boot loader brings it up at 1Gbps, then the config
> makes it fall back to 100Mbps.
>
> This is also the first time that I tried messing with GigE on the 450
> since updating from 13.2.1 to 14.1.2.
>
> This is a regular old RB1100. I have an Exalt ExtendAir G2-11 and an AF24
> each running on a GigE-POE-APC and gigabit works fine. Chuck would have to
> say for sure, but I don't think there's much electrical difference between
> the GigE-APC-HV and the GigE-POE-APC. Besides maybe the gas-tube backup
> suppression and GigE transformer.
>
> Me thinks this has more to do with Cambium.
>
> On 9/9/2016 6:10 PM, George Skorup wrote:
>
> I upgraded two CRS125-24G-1S-RM's to 6.36.3 (current branch). Both brand
> new out of the boxes. Upgraded boot firmware to 3.33 on both. Reset both to
> defaults. Ether24 to ether24 linked up at 1Gbps FDX. Ran MT bandwidth tests
> between them. No issues.
>
> Then I put a GigE-APC-HV in between with a 50' patch cable on one side and
> a 10' on the other side. Tried with and without the ground attached. Ran
> more bandwidth tests. No link drops. No errors.
>
> So... I have no idea why you're having problems. The ones I have are
> definitely HV Rev A1's.
>
> On 9/9/2016 2:24 PM, Matt wrote:
>
> I have a couple CRS125's on my bench that I can mess with this afternoon if
> I have time.
>
> Do you have a GigEAPC-HV?  My setup was CRS125 -<~50 foot
> UTP>-<GigEAPC-HV>-<20 foot UTP>- CRS125
>
>
>
>
>


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