We have many customers near the coast, and we have a pile of Canopy 100 900 MHz radios that rusted off their mounts due to corrosion. Another pile has units where the Ethernet connectors essentially *rotted* because the installers did not use silicon grease inside the units on the back of the ethernet conenctors and polyphenyl ether on the connectors itself.
So while "waterproof" may not be crucial, being rated and used for the particular purpose is. Daniel Mullen Island Telecom Matt Hoppes <mhop...@indigowireless.com> wrote .. > If my subscribers homes are underwater their internet is the least of my > worries. > > Ok. I'm playing hardball - but seriously. Sell us on why having a waterproof > CPE > is necessary? > > > On Nov 8, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Patrick Leary <patrick.le...@telrad.com> wrote: > > > > ...links have 2 sides > > > > - Patrick > > > > > > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > > Behalf > Of Matt Hoppes > > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2014 9:36 PM > > To: WISPA General List > > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Water in your radios? Know your IP rating. > > > > My towers do not flood 80 feet in the air..... > > > > On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Patrick Leary <patrick.le...@telrad.com> wrote: > > > > Conversations over the past several weeks make clear many are not aware of > > the > meaning of the environmental specifications, in particular the IP rating. It > matters, > as the nature of your environment informs you about the gear you need to use. > Do > you have broad temperature swings? Thermal expansion can cause cracking around > connector housings in some levels of gear. Ice storms? Nothing exploits a > crack > like freezing water. Operate near the desert? Dust protection matters. Near > the > coast? Salt is highly corrosive. Are you complaining about water getting into > your > boxes? If you don't know the IP rating, you really can't complain becuase you > may > be using the gear beyond its specs. As in the law, ignorance is no defense, so > in the interest of dispelling ignorance, here's a quick tutorial on the "IP > rating." > > > > First, it's not sequential. I mean, the two digits have no relation to each > > other. > In that sense it is NOT a number: IP55 does not mean IP "fifty-five," but > rather > is more appropriately thought of as IP "five five." Come again?!? > > > > Well, the first number refers to protection level from particulate matter -- > solids -- like dust and sand. The second number deals with protection from > liquid > incursion. (There can be a third number, usually left out, that deals with > mechanical > tolerance.) In any event, here's the key to crack the code: > > > > <image002.png> > > > > <image005.png> > > > > Know the rating of your equipment, at both ends. Environmental truck rolls > > are > almost 100% avoidable. Environmental failure at the base station impacts the > whole > sector. Failures at the CPE level can cause repeated truck rolls and is a time > sink trying to identify root cause before the truck rolls. Outdoor devices > with > a first digit of 5 or less, will take in dust. Similarly, anything with a > second > number of 6 or below will take on water because it was not designed not to. > > > > These are consequential specifications. You'd better believe your telco or > > cable > competition has minimum environmental requirements as a rule. Are you any less > serious a player in your market? Control those variables within your control. > > > > Regards, > > > > Patrick Leary > > National Sales Director | Telrad Networks Ltd. > > M 727.501.3735 | Skype pleary > > <image004.png> > > See us on <image003.png> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************************ > > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by > > PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer > > viruses. > > ************************************************************************************ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wireless mailing list > > Wireless@wispa.org > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************************ > > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by > > PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer > > viruses. > > ************************************************************************************ > > > > > > > > > > > > ************************************************************************************ > > This footnote confirms that this email message has been scanned by > > PineApp Mail-SeCure for the presence of malicious code, vandals & computer > > viruses. > > ************************************************************************************ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wireless mailing list > > Wireless@wispa.org > > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
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