I have a question for y'all. I can wait to get a hold of a few of these outdoor PoE units for my aPPo's. They are on BIGO METAL TOWERS, which are prone to lightning strikes (if we had any) and when hit take out all clients (not just one).
However, I am in NO hurry to get them in place on my customer installs. I know...I know...plenty of you will be saying, "what if it takes a lightning hit and burns the house down". But truthfully...how many of you are really going to install them?? It is hard enough to find a suitable location for an antenna....then run the cable all the way around the house to the room where the PC's are. Now...I am supposed to run the cable to the location where their earth ground is, then run more cable from there all the way to the computer room. That will easily double the amount of cable run per install. And don't even say you are going to pound in your own ground stake...cause you wont! I will at my towers...but not in a client's yard with water lines, gas lines, sewer lines, etc. NO WAY! Not to mention the time involved. Recap: to use an outdoor PoE it will extend my average install time from 2 hours to 3 hours (not including putting in my own ground stake)...driving the cost per install up by $50-75 per install. I don't know...I just don't think it is worth it. But then again...I live in an area where I have only seen lightning (way up in the clouds) once in the 1.5 years I have been here. Sully The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
