Same with the CPE side. Stay off the roof if at all possible! On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Marlon K. Schafer <[email protected]> wrote: > The best thing I've heard so far is to stay at least 10' below the top of > the tower. Often things below that level get missed for some reason. > > shrug. > > Lighting is a very powerful foe. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark Dueck" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:18 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Lightening protection > > >> I've been wanting to ask this question for a few days. >> >> We got hit on one of our NOCs with about 6 radios on the tower. Every >> single radio was fried. Our problem I think is that it's a limestone >> (caliche or white marl) hill. How well can you ground in a situation >> like that? Or does it not matter? We had all our POE's properly >> grounded, but did not run separate ground from the radios as they were >> all Tranzeo with metal back plate, metal mount, mounted directly on the >> legs of the tower. The tower has a grounding rod at the bottom, but it >> goes directly into the limestone. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> On 07/27/2010 08:29 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: >>> I had a problem customer than was always getting CPE Ethernet knocked >>> out. >>> Switched to shielded CAT5 with a pac wireless POE adapter that grounds >>> the >>> jacket through the 3rd prong ground of the house plug and problem went >>> away. >>> Also it helps if the pole the the CPE is mounted to is grounded as well. >>> If >>> its on a roof you may have to run a ground wire to the pole to dissipate >>> static. >>> >>> Kurt Fankhauser >>> WAVELINC >>> P.O. Box 126 >>> Bucyrus, OH 44820 >>> 419-562-6405 >>> www.wavelinc.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >>> Behalf Of Jeremie Chism >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:54 AM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: [WISPA] Lightening protection >>> >>> I had two cpe's get struck by lightening yesterday that took out the >>> cpe, the router behind it and the voip adapter behind that. Along with >>> a few Ethernet cards also. What are you using on the customers end to >>> try to stop this. The cpe is powered by poe. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> 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/ >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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/ >
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