We see equipment failures from bugs occasionally. Generally in the spring and then some this time of year. Seems to be mostly ants. Not so much on our major tower sites, but on small repeaters we usually put a small plastic electrical enclosure and seal the cables with silicon. Ants seem to be able to chew right through it and start to nest inside the router (usually a RB750UP). Also lose a few CPE per year due to the same problem. We started putting some sort of ant poison granules in the boxes this year, seems to work but too early to know for sure.
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Eric Muehleisen <ericm...@gmail.com> wrote: > We keep our equipment in enclosures so they are protected and not tampered > with. > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jeremy <jeremysmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Any of you guys have bugs causing outages? Our boxes are all pretty well >> sealed, but our commercial tower site that we lease space on is packed full >> of Box Elder bugs, stink bugs, wasps, ladybugs, and mice. They all seem to >> be seeking warmth for the coming winter. We lost two major switches in two >> days, I believe due to bugs climbing inside and shorting out the switches. >> I've screened the replacement. Here's hoping that it works!!! >> > >
