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
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>
>> 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
>>>
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