Hello Randy, Ha! Very interesting. How long were your Ethernet cable runs on each side of the link? At what power level do you have the radios set to?
Another idea we had was to run the LMR400 cable from the ODU all the way inside to the outdoor designed IDU. This would limit the length of the proprietary cables to a minimum. The question I have if we do this is: Will the outdoor IDU be able to power & operate the ODU over the 50'-200' of LMR400 we may need rather than the 3'-4' of LMR400 it was intended to do? Thanks for the feedback! Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:32 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback... Since your unit is out of warranty anyway... If you open the unit up, you will find that there is an ethernet port inside it, as well as a power port, connected to that proprietary plug. We replaced that with a Pacific Wireless RJ45 ethernet connector system - http://www.streakwave.com/mmSWAVE1/Video/RJ45-ECS_datasheet-v2.pdf and peeled the power off that. We were then able to push power + ethernet up on one cable. On 2/16/2010 6:31 AM, Brad Belton wrote: > Hello Kristian, > > Those connectors are similar to what the Trango Apex uses that are too small > for an armored outdoor CAT5 cable. It's a shame the product engineers some > manufacturers use/have to design their products are so imperceptive of basic > field requirements. > > The inherited DragonWave AirPair radios that we're contemplating using on a > job have the proprietary round DIN style plug attached to a custom > DragonWave bundled cable. It looks like Hutton and Tessco have these custom > cables in a variety of lengths, but what a pain in the tail! > > Thanks for the information. I've got some more reading to do before we > decide on deploying these radios or just to punt them on EBay. > > Best, > > > Brad > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Kristian Hoffmann > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:34 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Looking for DragonWave Air-Pair cables and feedback... > > On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:32 -0600, Brad Belton wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> We've inherited a DragonWave Air-Pair radio set and I'm looking for any >> feedback from those that have deployed these. The good, bad and ugly. >> > We have a few Horizon Compact links. They've done very well except for > when we get weird high/low pressure systems that result in a layer of > fog in our valley that sits at about ~150ft. The DW engineer called the > effect ducting. We enabled AAM in an attempt to counter the affects, > but the AAM code was apparently buggy in the version we had. So instead > of stabilizing the link, it made it much, much worse. So make sure you > get the latest firmware if you can. > > >> We'll probably need new cable sets for each end as well, so to any >> DragonWave vendors on the list please feel free to send me an email with >> prices on cable length options. >> > The Horizon Compact units have unfriendly ethernet connectors as well. > Something along the lines of this... > > http://www.connecticc.com/default.aspx?page=item% > 20detail&itemcode=JTRJ45-12NXL > > >> I sure hope their new Horizon radios don't require these BS proprietary >> cables like the Air-Pair radios. What a pain in the tail... >> > > > -Kristian > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! 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