A NEMA will keep out rain, but not bugs. I just had a sealed NEMA box
filled with Ants (The little tiny ones). Lucky I happened to be at the
site just after they moved in before they caused any damage. There's
also a big giant spider that lives in there, but he doesn't cause me any
problems, so I just let him watch while I'm working on it.
On 10/28/2015 2:01 PM, Chris Fabien wrote:
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
<mailto: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
<mailto: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!!!
