One of my big concerns about the Skypilot was the terrible failure rate of the units. I have heard from multiple sources that 42-55% of the units failed.
I think most of the failure we due to the high electrical transients caused by the start up of the mercury vapor or sodium lamps they were attached to. These types of failures are not quite as obvious as all out failure. The types of transients that ripple through the system also can cause the output stages of these radios and the diversity switch in particular to fail resulting in low power on the output. The backhaul on these units seemed to be one of the main problems -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ptp-general] Re: REMINDER: Inside the SkyPilot SkyExtender, PTP Monthly Tom Higgins wrote: > What was the general consensus on the usefulness of the devices for > PTP endeavors? > After ditching the antenna array, the 5 lb. aluminum base, and a bunch of other extra cruft... maybe. Peplink makes one of the boards but it's no longer supported by them as they've moved on to making a niche class of load balancer products. I still don't understand why they didn't use a dual radio board design as dual mini-PCI boards have been available for some time. That antenna array still has me boggled, too. For fun, I took note of the FCC ID (RV7-DBE1010) and looked up the test reports here: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid. I had to enter RV7 only then look for DBE1010 in the resulting list. -Gary No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.72/2337 - Release Date: 08/31/09 05:50:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
