We grounded all our towers the same as mike...3 rods in a triangle about 10 ft out in each direction.
Cameron On Tuesday, July 27, 2010, Mike <m...@aweiowa.com> wrote: > Oh yeah, I usually ground with a triad of rods in an equilateral triangle at > least 8 feet apart, and never a single rod. > > Friendly Regards, > > Mike > > Mike Gilchrist > Disruptive Technologist > Advanced Wireless Express > P.O. Box 255 > Toledo, IA 52342 > 239.770.6203 > m...@aweiowa.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Dueck > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:18 AM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Lightening protection > > I've been wanting to ask this question for a few days. > > We got hit on one of our NOCs with about 6 radios on the tower. Every > single radio was fried. Our problem I think is that it's a limestone > (caliche or white marl) hill. How well can you ground in a situation > like that? Or does it not matter? We had all our POE's properly > grounded, but did not run separate ground from the radios as they were > all Tranzeo with metal back plate, metal mount, mounted directly on the > legs of the tower. The tower has a grounding rod at the bottom, but it > goes directly into the limestone. > > Any suggestions? > > On 07/27/2010 08:29 AM, Kurt Fankhauser wrote: >> I had a problem customer than was always getting CPE Ethernet knocked out. >> Switched to shielded CAT5 with a pac wireless POE adapter that grounds the >> jacket through the 3rd prong ground of the house plug and problem went > away. >> Also it helps if the pole the the CPE is mounted to is grounded as well. > If >> its on a roof you may have to run a ground wire to the pole to dissipate >> static. >> >> Kurt Fankhauser >> WAVELINC >> P.O. Box 126 >> Bucyrus, OH 44820 >> 419-562-6405 >> www.wavelinc.com >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >> Behalf Of Jeremie Chism >> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:54 AM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: [WISPA] Lightening protection >> >> I had two cpe's get struck by lightening yesterday that took out the >> cpe, the router behind it and the voip adapter behind that. Along with >> a few Ethernet cards also. What are you using on the customers end to >> try to stop this. The cpe is powered by poe. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> 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/ >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> 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/ >> >> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
