We knew him before he became a gillionaire

Jaime Solorza

On Dec 14, 2017 5:28 PM, "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> So, now you've all speculated a bit, and I've had some sleep (up way too
> late working on getting this out the door)....
>
> Yes, George, the 450i and 450m supports both positive and negative
> voltages.   It has a fully isolated power supply.
>
> Yes, Sean, this is a 450m on a short cable, and no subscribers.   I plan
> on putting a single SM on this this evening, along with a very long cable
> (>100m) to verify no issues.   I also have tests of these in the field with
> more subs, but this is the first one I get to play with on the bench
> (borrowed it from the WISP).
>
> For everyone's information:
>
> The board in question will be fixed-pinout and is designed to provide
> Cambium Style sync over power to the 450i and 450m AP's.   It will also
> power up other devices which are ok with or need an all-4-pair power
> arrangement and are ok with the cambium power arangement.      This board
> will be released for purchase on or shortly after January 1st, and either
> shipping immediately or shortly thereafter.
>
> Shortly thereafetr will follow a jumper configurable either polarity
> injection board.   It is still yet to be seen whether or not we'll be able
> to do the older style Canopy-stle sync over power with this, I'm hopefull
> we will.   This board will not do the newer cambium style sync.   The
> switching should in theory be fast enough to do the Canopy style sync, but
> until we spend a lot of time with it on a scope, I can't be sure.
>
> So, to summarize:
>
> Now:  4 port jumper configurable positive only, Canopy-Style sync.
>
> Jan 1:  4 port Cambium-Style sync, 4 pair Cambium-style pinput, +-48VDC
> required.
>
> Later in Jan/Feb: 4 Port Jumper Confurable plus-or-minus voltage board
> which *may* have the capability for sync over power for Cambium style
> sync.
>
> One note:  Currently, even if you feed these -48VDC, you still need at
> least one positive power supply for the syncinjector to power things like
> the GPS module, and the electronics for the control board.   I'm still
> working on fixing this issue, I think I might have it figured out, but I've
> thought this before.   The currently-shipping control boards will always
> have this requirement, a future revision in where we hope to resolve this.
>
> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 9:24 AM, George Skorup <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> So you're saying the 450m supports negative voltage / positive ground?
>>
>> On 12/14/2017 10:19 AM, Sean Heskett wrote:
>>
>> its powering a 450m.  probably on a short cable with no subscribers
>> attached sine it's only drawing 43.19watts - just a guess tho ;-)
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 8:48 AM, George Skorup <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> -52 volts. Nice. Wait... what is that powering at 820mA?
>>>
>>> I imagine the answer to this is no, but will the Cambium Sync compatible
>>> cards/injectors still do traditional Canopy Sync? Entirely different h/w,
>>> right? I hope I'm wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/14/2017 2:49 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
>>>
>>> Cambium's been pretty nice since they quit being motorola.   They of
>>> course make business choices from time to time which negatively affects
>>> those of us who make cool things for the cambium products, but such is the
>>> life.
>>>
>>> And that's a screenshot from a a 450m/medusa.  Their MU-MIMO stuff which
>>> just works (the WISP I deal with from time to time has had great luck with
>>> them).
>>>
>>> Here's another snip, from my product:
>>>
>>>
>>> ​
>>> I suspect there will be a few people excited about a couple of the
>>> things on the above screen ;)
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Steve Jones <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> this is?
>>>> last mu-mimo thing cambium showed me was the day their guy was ripping
>>>> us off on 320 right before they gave me a sweet sandwich
>>>> are they playing ball with packetflux or giving you the beehive shaft?
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:09 AM, Forrest Christian (List Account) <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ​
>>>>>
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>>>>> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.*
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>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.*
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *Forrest Christian* *CEO**, PacketFlux Technologies, Inc.*
> Tel: 406-449-3345 | Address: 3577 Countryside Road, Helena, MT 59602
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=3577+Countryside+Road,+Helena,+MT+59602&entry=gmail&source=g>
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