I just saw our first failure a couple weeks ago, it was consistent with photos I've seen of other ubnt toughcable failures. The jacket has turned from the original grey color to a translucent green, and hairline cracks then develop across the diameter of the cable. Almost like the plastic has shrunk, imagine alligator skin. In this failure, the POE was soaked and the radio had a blown eth port. Complete new install for the customer, except the roof tripod.
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Tom Sharples <[email protected]> wrote: > Steve do you know specifically what failed yet? Did random holes just appear > in the sheath? Is yours the black or green? I'm worried because we've been > recommending this shielded cable to all our customers esp. in lighting-prone > areas like OK. > > Tom S. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Barnes" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 9:58 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Are Ubiquiti cables failing??? > > >>I had my fist 3 cable failures this week. Blown radios and POE's. I know >>that I don't get any credit for labor but I also don't want any new cable >>that will fail in a year. I think I will just have them replace the radios >>and go one with Life. Not sure how I would ever get rid of 10 boxes of new >>UBNT cable. I would put it out. >> >> Steve Barnes >> General Manager >> PCS-WIN / RC-WiFi >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Jeromie Reeves >> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 12:40 PM >> To: [email protected]; WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Are Ubiquiti cables failing??? >> >> Yes. As stated the green stuff is crap. Ive got boxes of radios with dead >> ethernet ports. Forget new cable, I want my radios fixed! We used the >> cable in short runs <15ft, and are finding more and more places it was >> used as those sites fail. >> >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Paolo Di Francesco >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> it seems that lately the Ubiquiti cables that we installed some time >>> ago, are filling with water and burning the ethernet interface. >>> >>> It happened with one cable on one site, then another cable on the same >>> site, now I have another cable failing on a second site... >>> >>> Any comment? >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> Ing. Paolo Di Francesco >>> >>> Level7 s.r.l. unipersonale >>> >>> Sede operativa: Largo Montalto, 5 - 90144 Palermo >>> >>> C.F. e P.IVA 05940050825 >>> Fax : +39-091-8772072 >>> assistenza: (+39) 091-8776432 >>> web: http://www.level7.it >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wireless mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> _______________________________________________ >> Wireless mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
