Make sure the tower is grounded to the electrical system ground as well. Sort of like every house is grounded with a lightning rod, but uses the electrical system ground also.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 09:18:04AM -0600, Mark Dueck wrote: > 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/ -- /* Jason Philbrook | Midcoast Internet Solutions - Wireless and DSL KB1IOJ | Broadband Internet Access, Dialup, and Hosting http://f64.nu/ | for Midcoast Maine http://www.midcoast.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/
