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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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  • in reply to Jan Cumps

    The CAT6 cable runs are outside the bin. On some other bins there are GPS antennas and cameras. I default to the yard supervisor for installation. He hasn't told me NO to this point.

    I would have thought lighting rods would have been the norm on bins but not here. Over 90 bins some as high as 90 feet and not a lighting rod to be seen. The yard site is adjacent to a 1000ft telecommunication

    tower. I figure that might be the lighting rod:) The guy wires from the tower cut through part of the yard.

  • in reply to colporteur

    Ah... so kind of telecom to provide you with some lightning protection.  I think you are at low risk of a direct strike but still at average risk of the elevated ground plane created by a near lightning strike - caused by the relative proximity to the telecon tower. and the inability of Mother Earth to dissipate that much energy instantaneously.
    Now... if it hasn't presented itself as a problem up to this point, your efforts will be "taking reasonable protective posture".  You can make a sound financial decision.  If the isolators are just a fraction of the cost of the equipment they protect... go for it.  If they are even 25% the cost and you have never experienced an equipment failure from a near lightning event... put your money into other things.