I thought about using a second cat5 for power, but I had some 14/2, so I used that... but 14 guage really seems like overkill to me.
On Oct 23, 2017 8:56 PM, "George Skorup" <george.sko...@cbcast.com> wrote: > Two cat5's. One obviously to the data/WAN port. The other, two pairs > positive, two pairs negative. Nothing else. We did try a GigE-POE-SS (top) > and GigE-POE-APC (bottom). Power worked fine, but couldn't get the > etherlink link to come up. It was about 290 feet of cable. The eNBs have > built-in SS on the data port, so possibly too much loss or something with > the MTC suppressors added in. > > The new eNB coming out will have a standard terminal block and two SFP > slots. I'm planning to use the Shireen DFP-1246 with that. > > On 10/23/2017 8:36 PM, Josh Baird wrote: > >> Those of you who have Baicells deployed, how are you powering the base >> station? >> >> Are you running something like 14/2 up the tower and providing -/+48VDC >> directly? >> >> Ugh - I thought the eNB had SFP's, but it looks like I need to provide >> data over CAT5/6? >> >> >> >
