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@hotmail.com <mailto:ktolliver@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
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