I'm just starting to use these for some VERY remote sites. https://www.tyconsystems.com/tpdin-monitor-web3
Jason Wilson Remotely Located Critical Infrastructure Service Provider Providing High Speed Internet to out of the way places. 530-651-1736 530-748-9608 Cell www.remotelylocated.com On Thu, Nov 17, 2022, 09:31 <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've used the PDU at the bottom of the tower. My only complaint at the > time > was the character limit on port description. I think it was 11 characters > or some such....I had to come up with some cryptic abbreviations when I > really wanted to say "Power to Telrad Compact 1000 - 270 azimuth". I think > they were talking about fixing that in a future version of the base unit, > but I haven't used any packetflux lately so I don't know if that's still an > issue or not. If you're powering 100W radios then you'd be limited to 3 > per > PDU. A fourth radio would put you over the 8A total. That wasn't an issue > in my deployment, but if you're planning 4+ sectors per tower then that's > something to be aware of. Next problem is wire gauge. Anything bigger > than > 14ga is gonna have trouble squeezing into the connector on the packet flux > PDU. Voltage drop on 48V /8A with 14ga is going to be pretty severe at > 300ft, but if the tower is short then it's probably ok. I was deploying on > 70ft poles, and we ran 16ga up to each radio so it was acceptable, but > feeding the 8A input on the packetflux PDU on a taller site could be an > issue. > > In any case I'd advise separate cables. I know it seems wasteful, but you > can have any tower dude climb up there and put the green plug into the > green > hole. If you want the tower climber to strip and terminate DC cables then > you'd have to be careful who you send up there. If you're dead set on a > single power run then something with built in breakers is a good idea. > Packetflux PDU would fit that bill. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 11:48 AM > To: Animal Farm <af@af.afmug.com> > Subject: [AFMUG] Outdoor DC Distribution > > Mikrotik makes a nice outdoor fiber switch with a handfull of 10G ports. > Does anyone make something similar for DC Distribution? Run a single power > cable up a tower and DC to multiple radios? I'm thinking like 3 or 4 > licensed radios each needing 2 wire DC input and 10G fiber. > Rather than running individual power wires for each one. I've used a UBNT > Edgepoint S16, taking the 56v POE Output ports, and running them through > the > MCT GIGE-POE to extract 2wire power to run to the radio. > But that's extra pieces needing a place to be mounted. > > Would the Site Monitor 5 channel PDU fit the bill? IT says 3A per channel, > and 8A total. So in theory that should be able to provide about 140w per > radio. Could put it in some sort of NEMA with a DIN mount. The > Sitemonitor > base is hardened, would the PDU be as well? > > Are there other options? > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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