[smartBridges] Grounding?!

[David Berndt]

	A bit of a mid-night rant here.

I've been thinking on a lot of the failures we hear talked about here on 
the list, the quesitons about lightning, potential lightning strikes, 
lightning striking near by. Alot of the answers seem to be a combination of 
finger crossing and some black magic.

So what I'd like to see to rectify some of these issues is smartbridge 
publish a document about proper grounding. Where do we need grounds/surge 
protectors/lightning arrestors, the differences between them, etc.

I know these things are all dictated by the local building code and the 
like wherever you happen to be using the product. But how about some sort 
of a document that is intended as a bare minimum/recommended practices 
document to get all the installs to be put together in a fairly similar way 
and help correct some of the new newbie mistakes and take a bit of the 
black magic out of this.

This could be a fairly simple diagram of a few different sample setups of 
the outdoor equipment. I am especially interested in the total equipment, 
is there a polyphaser in there? Should the cat5 be grounded when using 
sheilded cat5, otherwise? Surge protector on the cat5? before/after the POE 
device? etc etc.

A recommended parts list wouldnt be horrible either. I do not want to see 
this enforced, but more documentation and standardization would make things 
clearer for everyone, provide a quick way to answer peoples questions and 
maybe make everyones systems a bit more stable.

Hope that made some degree of sense.

Dave

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