If you don't have a surge suppressor then you need a tower climber to change the switch. Either way, a climb is required.
Remember surge suppressors are not like fuses. In the sense that they don't "blow" with every suppression event. They can shunt some spikes to ground, save the switch port, and live to fight another day. If they do give their lives to save the switch then you need a climb. But would have likely have needed that climb anyway to replace that switch or change ports. So suppressors at the top will reduce the number of climbs although you will never know how many times the surge suppressor saved you. Maybe Chuck should put a strike counter circuit in the suppressor and change to a subscription model. You have to pay for each strike that he saved you from. PC Blaze Broadband From: Af [mailto:af-boun...@afmug.com] On Behalf Of Gino Villarini via Af Sent: Monday, September 29, 2014 4:16 PM To: af@afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Top Switch Surge Protection Question That was my first thought, but then it requieres a tower climb to change blown supressors.. Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr From: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Reply-To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Date: Monday, September 29, 2014 at 4:13 PM To: "af@afmug.com" <af@afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tower Top Switch Surge Protection Question We do the Beehive APC surges. Gerard On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Gino Villarini via Af <af@afmug.com> wrote: Those putting Switches at the tower top, what kind of protection are you using for the Ethernet ports? Are you using surge suppressors? I was thinking of using Industrial POE switches at the top, feed DC and fiber, then short runs to the radios (epmp and 450 are poe compliant) Should I go straigt to the radios? Gino A. Villarini President Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. www.aeronetpr.com @aeronetpr
