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edasich
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I am looking for some recommendations on hooking up an IP camera to solar power. This is for outdoor install on a roof. I do not want any cabling so as to reduce the risk of near-by lightening voltage pickup. Previous roof installs I used POE with outdoor rated cabling and CAT5 lightening surge protector properly grounded and isolated from the network. A lot of work for safety.
Thoughts?
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ICUSecurity
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Because solar power is less prone to lightning?
-Chris
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edasich
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Lightening needs a conducting path. There will not be a conducting path to the network equipment if it wireless.
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psycom
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| edasich wrote: | | Lightening needs a conducting path. There will not be a conducting path to the network equipment if it wireless. |
That's a good point. Lighting... it's not a matter of IF it's WHEN. So what did you come up with as an answer? I'd like to know what my solar options are as well.
thx... rich
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edasich
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psycom
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Hey thanks for the link!! Way cool. Piece of cake to upgrade a battery. Tie in a Sealed racing deep cycle and it'll run months although it'll be over kill.
Just use two 7.5 alarm batteries going positive to positive, neg to neg and have a 15 amp power supply with a continual trickle charge. That'll work for years.
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Mr Sots
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Plenty of options available for solar and wind turbines but you have to guarantee their availability... For the cost of the panels and battery though, surely the ethernet lightning surge arrestors are a cheaper option?
Personally I prefer to run Fibre to camera locations that may be prone to a lightning strike with a media convertor into the camera. Also helps get round the fact that externals are often >100M from the comms cabs!
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edasich
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| Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: Lightening surge protectors |
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Yor are right that fiber is the way to go.
In one installation I do have a lightening surge protector on a POE ethernet cable. The headache involved installing the surge protector that needed to be run to ground using 6 guage wire. I used " 10/100 Base-T Shielded CAT5 Lightning Surge Protector- Power-Over-Ethernet Compatible"
Part of my motivation for solar is experimenting and learning.
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