svendyensen
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Hello All,
A few questions for everyone. I have been reading past posts on this topic but have not been able to come to any conclusions. Here is our situation:
We install mounts for our equipment on houses and businesses. We use tripods, universal mounts, and chimney mounts mostly. Our equipment is powered via Power-over-ethernet. I am wondering what the correct way to ground this system would be. Cat5 is run to the radio that is mounted on the same pole as the antenna. We have the option of using shielded or non-shielded cat5. We can also purchase cat5 with an additional "messenger" wire 24AWG inter-twinned with the 8 standard wires of the cat5. We also have a surge suppressor for our equipment that needs to be grounded. Thus far, we have been using 10AWG solid bare copper wire to go from the metal mount/pole to the surge suppressor then directly to ground or straight to ground from the mount and straight to ground from the the surge suppressor. The cat5 from the radio gets plugged into the surge suppresor and then another peice of cat5 goes from the SS to inside the building.
Our problem is that we are using a lot of copper for some of our installs, due to the fact that we can't install the antenna near the service entrance a lot of the time. We can "ground" the pole by using shielded cat5 cable and shielded plugs, the radio's ground plane on the circuit board is connected to the metal antenna through the coax. The sheilded plugs connect the ground from the Surge Suppressor to the sheild of the cat5 to the ground plane of the radio, so everything is technically 'grounded', but is it up to the NEC code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -Erik
A few questions for everyone. I have been reading past posts on this topic but have not been able to come to any conclusions. Here is our situation:
We install mounts for our equipment on houses and businesses. We use tripods, universal mounts, and chimney mounts mostly. Our equipment is powered via Power-over-ethernet. I am wondering what the correct way to ground this system would be. Cat5 is run to the radio that is mounted on the same pole as the antenna. We have the option of using shielded or non-shielded cat5. We can also purchase cat5 with an additional "messenger" wire 24AWG inter-twinned with the 8 standard wires of the cat5. We also have a surge suppressor for our equipment that needs to be grounded. Thus far, we have been using 10AWG solid bare copper wire to go from the metal mount/pole to the surge suppressor then directly to ground or straight to ground from the mount and straight to ground from the the surge suppressor. The cat5 from the radio gets plugged into the surge suppresor and then another peice of cat5 goes from the SS to inside the building.
Our problem is that we are using a lot of copper for some of our installs, due to the fact that we can't install the antenna near the service entrance a lot of the time. We can "ground" the pole by using shielded cat5 cable and shielded plugs, the radio's ground plane on the circuit board is connected to the metal antenna through the coax. The sheilded plugs connect the ground from the Surge Suppressor to the sheild of the cat5 to the ground plane of the radio, so everything is technically 'grounded', but is it up to the NEC code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -Erik
