[HamWAN PSDR] Need Power High on Tower

[Bart Kus]

Mikrotik has Powerbox Pro, and UBNT has similar tower-top outdoor PoE 
distribution models.  They'll both take DC wires, and they'll both take 
fiber.  If you don't like fiber, you can stick one of those outdoor 
units mid-way up the tower as a regenerator.

--Bart


On 10/10/2019 6:17 PM, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
> Ken,
>
> First thought is I’d look at doing something like a small enclosure at 
> the level of your sectors with something like the hEX PoE 
> (https://mikrotik.com/product/RB960PGS) in there. Run fiber and power 
> up the tower to the enclosure, then have short runs of cat-5/6 from 
> the enclosure out to the sectors.
>
> Fiber also provides your isolation on the DC side, so then all you 
> have to worry about protecting is the power.
>
> Nigel
>
>> On Oct 10, 2019, at 18:12, Kenneth Tolliver <ktolliver at hotmail.com 
>> <mailto:ktolliver at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> We hope to put our HamWAN Sectors up at about the 500 foot level on a 
>> commercial tower.
>> CAT-6 is limited to 330 feet; then it needs to connect to an active 
>> component to then break out a line(with PoE) for each Sector 
>> Device(Up to an additional 330 feet).
>>
>> Have any of you put your equipment higher than 330 feet on a tower?
>> How did you get the power up to the Midway device to power the second 
>> set of 330 foot PoE lines?
>>
>> Ideas???
>>
>> 73
>>
>> Ken Tolliver
>> K7ICY
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