Nextel spends tens or hundreds of thousands per device. Our stuff is cheaper than cheap.
Get off of the TOP of the tower. Polyphaser has a great lightning white paper. If you can be 10' below the top you'll be much more protected. Also, I've had good luck lately with ferrite beads. And ground everything. Ground it again. and again and again. You might also want to consider adding a static dissipater on the top of the tower to help keep the lightning away in the first place. http://www.affordable-solar.com/gs-1.brush.lightning.dissipator.htm http://www.eriinc.com/products/btss/CA21831A_10.pdf I think Hutton carries something too. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hogg" <[email protected]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2009 7:31 AM Subject: [WISPA] Direct Lightning Strikes > Has anyone been able to withstand a direct lightning strike? We had a > tower get hit last night, and some of our equipment lost Ethernet ports > (RB/433AH), and we lost 3 canopy APs, but that is all (considering what > is all up there only 2/3rds was blown). Our Trango AP survived and a > RB/433AH survived. Even Nextel had their guys out there, but they just > had to reset alarms it appears as nothing was "fried" on their end. I > wish I had to just reset alarms. > > > > So tell me, what do you do ? I'm tired of dumping a few grand during big > lightning storms. > > > > I do the basics, Ethernet surge suppression up top and on the bottom, > Polyphasers, ground out to the ground bars, ground out the cat5 cable, > and no omni's. > > > > Regards, > > Chuck Hogg > > Shelby Broadband > 502-722-9292 > [email protected] > > http://www.shelbybb.com > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
