I came up with a solution for this problem for now. I use West Mountain Radio Rigrunners ( http://www.powerwerx.com/west-mountain-radio/rigrunner-4005.html ) to distribute my voltage and protect my devices on solar installs. Makes for a nice clean, easy-to maintain and troubleshoot install. They go up to 38 volt, even though they don't say that in the descriptions.
I bought some radio shack 276-1143 diodes - 200V 3 amp ( http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062578 ). I crimped a red Anderson powerpole connector ( http://www.powerwerx.com/anderson-powerpoles/powerpole-sets/15-amp-red-black-anderson-powerpole-sets.html ) on each end of the diode after shortening the leads a little bit. Then I put that inline between my Rigrunner positive terminal and the cable that feeds my Mikrotik device. I label the end that goes to the Rigrunner - the side of the diode without the white stripe - with yellow tape so I don't end up putting it in backwards later. I use one for each device. Drops the voltage around .6 - .8 volts, enough to give me the margin I need on my radios. On routerboards that are very close by (no voltage drop due to ethernet cable length) I put two of these devices in line to drop it 1.2v. I'm cleaning out the local radioshacks and building a bunch of these for future use. Randy -- Randy Cosby Vice President InfoWest, Inc 435-674-0165 x 2010 http://www.infowest.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
