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What is you surge suppression experience

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Key Features • Supports 10/100/1000/10GBASE-T Ethernet speeds • Full PoE, PoE+, and PoE++ (IEEE 802.3af/at/bt) compatibility • Supports up to 90W of power delivery • IP65-rated waterproof outdoor enclosure • Designed to protect against lightning strikes and electrical surges • Ultra-low capacitance for high-speed data performance • Fast response time for critical equipment protection • Simple inline RJ45 installation • Flexible mounting options for poles, enclosures, and walls • Tested to international surge protection standards Ideal Applications • Outdoor wireless radios and backhaul links • Fixed wireless and WISP deployments • Outdoor WiFi access points • IP surveillance and security cameras • Network switches and outdoor enclosures • Industrial networking and SCADA systems • Municipal, campus, and enterprise network infrastructure

I am on my third install of CAT6 cables to Access points on the top of grain bins. This advertisement for Data Surge Protection Outdoor SPD IP65 10GB Ethernet came across my desk.

Many a fault over 20 years working in telecommunications were repaired on two wire copper pairs by replacing the fuse or surge suppressor. I never gave a thought to network cable. Then I was never running them up the side of grain bins. Now I'm thinking about them after the ad appeared to remind me.

Looking to find anyone that has experience and can provide some insight.

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  • I can't speak precisely on Ethernet, but we used to put surge suppression interfaces on some of our RS-485 MODBUS runs. When you're replacing the monitor station for the third time due to a near lightning event... it makes fiscal sense.  Basically, they were opto-isolators.

    Do you know what is causing the cable failure?  If your grain bin is the highest point around, you may be fighting nature.  Nothing protects from a direct lightning strike.  "Lightning protection" is really just trying to transfer where it happens when it happens.

  • in reply to kmikemoo

    K, this is preventative or paranoid i haven't decided yet. The network site is requiring more and more outdoor equipment. An ad for these devices came across my desk and I got thinking about my landline days. Fuse and surge suppression was the standard for all landlines. I find myself dragging long runs of CAT6 with nary a  care in the world about interference.

    Sounds like you have some experience. Anything on outdoor network CAT runs?

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  • in reply to kmikemoo

    K, this is preventative or paranoid i haven't decided yet. The network site is requiring more and more outdoor equipment. An ad for these devices came across my desk and I got thinking about my landline days. Fuse and surge suppression was the standard for all landlines. I find myself dragging long runs of CAT6 with nary a  care in the world about interference.

    Sounds like you have some experience. Anything on outdoor network CAT runs?

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