In addition to water in a cable and even water in an antenna. Steve Barnes wrote: > Don't forget pigtails. I have had a simple Pigtail cause odd receive signals > at the AP end. > > Steve Barnes > Executive Manager > PCS-WIN > RCWiFi Wireless Internet Service > (765)584-2288 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Mark McElvy > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:07 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Lightning Surge Suppressers > > Well the reason for concern is about a month ago I lost a 3 sector tower > to lightning or at least during a lightning storm. Everything with an > Ethernet port lost the Ethernet port as well as the three radios. I > replaced all three aps but left the lightning suppressors in place. One > of the AP's seems to have poor receive signals. I am trying to determine > if it is the new foliage or a blown suppressor. > > Mark McElvy > AccuBak Data Systems, Inc. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jack Unger > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 2:34 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Lightning Surge Suppressers > > Mark, > > I doubt the ohmeter will tell you anything. The gas tube is supposed to > measure "open". It's job is to conduct only when lightning needs to be > shorted to ground instead of going through your equipment. > > Put the arrestor inline between an antenna and a radio. If the radio > works as well after installation as it did before then the arrestor is > "probably" OK, assuming the gas tube isn't bad. After a lightning storm, > > if your radio stills works as well as it did before the storm then you > know the gas tube is probably good. > > If you think the gas tube is probably bad then just replace it with a > new one. > > jack > > > Mark McElvy wrote: > >> I have some Altelicon glass tube lightning surge arresters. I am >> > trying > >> to figure out how to test then to see if they are good. I have used an >> ohm meter to compare a new one with an old one I suspected to be bad >> > but > >> all reads the same. The replaceable glass tube measures open on bothe >> old and new. >> >> >> >> Mark McElvy >> AccuBak Data Systems, Inc. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > -------- > >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.21/1455 - Release Date: 5/19/2008 > 5:04 PM >
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