The best thing I've heard so far is to stay at least 10' below the top of the tower. Often things below that level get missed for some reason.
shrug. Lighting is a very powerful foe. marlon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Dueck" <m...@netking.bz> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:18 AM 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/
