That’s George and Josh,

We are running 2.6.2.1. Ill do some more testing on a bench and see what I can 
figure out. Certainly is frustrating. I reached out to Forest to see his 
thoughts as well.

 

Brandon

 

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Skorup
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 8:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 2.4 epmp and packetflux

 

I have a PowerInjector+Sync w/ a SyncBox attached running on the bench. 
Receiving sync just fine. 48VDC supply on PowerA. New out of the box, no jumper 
changes.

Plugged in a 5GHz GPS radio running 3.2.2. Puck disconnected, radio laying face 
down on the table. Set sync source to CMM3. Saved and power-cycled. CMM sync 
status is down. On-board GPS status shows n/a lat, long and height. 2 sats 
visible, 0 tracked. CMM sync finally comes up after 3 minutes and 15 seconds or 
so. If the radio comes up with a good on-board GPS lock, it will receive CMM 
sync pretty fast. If I simply reboot the radio, CMM sync is up a few seconds 
after it lets me log in. A power-cycle resets the on-board GPS (obviously), but 
a soft reboot does not.

I remember someone from Cambium explained some of this several months ago. 
Maybe Sriram or Dan Sullivan? They use the on-board GPS for timing, regardless 
if a CMM is in use or not, but if it is, then the sync-over-power pulse is fed 
into the on-board GPS. Whereas with Canopy, this is all done in the FPGA. So I 
suppose if the on-board GPS locks up, then perhaps CMM sync won't work either. 
I don't really know.

I don't know what to tell you other than ask Cambium for help.

On 3/28/2017 4:07 PM, Brandon Yuchasz wrote:

I figured someone had to be doing it. Its not that big of deal until we have a 
failure on one of the pucks in bad weather and then we will want to drop back 
to the packetflux. I can’t figure out why the 450i works fine and the epmp 
wont. Its seems like they should be the same. We started on 24 volts went to 
29.5 volts and then to 48 volts just to match the 450i stuff. No difference. 

 

 

From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 3:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 2.4 epmp and packetflux

 

24v Power Injector has worked for ages here.  CMM3 on four 2.4 and four 5 GHz.




 

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

 

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 12:39 PM, Brandon Yuchasz <[email protected]> 
wrote:

Is anyone successfully running epmp 2.4 aps on packetflux as the primary GPS 
for them? We have our sites with the onboard GPS puck as the primary GPS and 
just recently started powering the newest sites with Packetflux in order to 
provide a secondary GPS signal. At one site we has an AP that the puck GPS was 
blocked during install and would not receive sync so we turned on CMM3 and 
never were able to get GPS. Eventually we just did a climb and moved the puck 
and its receiving GPS now. 

 

Last week when installing a new site I decided to try GPS through the 
packetflux again and was not able to receive it. If I swap one of the cables 
from a 450i into the same port on the packetflux we get GPS no problem on the 
450i AP but no joy on the epmp. I even went out and grabbed an extra AP off the 
truck plugged it in with a 2 foot none shielded Ethernet to the packetflux and 
still no GPS on CMM3.

 

We are using power injector plus at the newest sites. No changes using them out 
of the box on 48 volts and like I mentioned they provide GPS just fine to 
the450i.

 

 

So I am wondering if anyone is running this setup successfully of if we are all 
just using the puck.

 

Thanks,

Brandon

 

 

 

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