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Rob,<br>
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You're sending email from not your email address. It's showing as
coming from the mailing list address itself.<br>
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How did you conclude the issue was a lightning strike? Water logged
cables can leak water into connectors. Powered RJ45s that are wet
undergo electrolysis and corrosion. I'd also like to know what
cable + connectors were used for this installation.<br>
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This camera should have a pigtail that the CAT5 plugs into. Why do
you need to open the camera housing?<br>
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Do you have any pictures of your recent visit?<br>
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--Bart<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/8/2020 11:57 PM, Doug Kingston
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Darcy, that
is not an unreasonable call at all. We can afford to do that,
luckily. We know the cable is bad; that is a fact.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at 7:38 PM
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<div dir="auto">My first thought is, if we know a tower climb
is needed to replace the cable, and there is a greater than
0% chance the camera is faulted, why not just replace it. If
the cam turns out fine, redeploy it elseware... Just my
$0.02cdn</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat., Aug. 8, 2020,
18:53 Doug Kingston, <<a
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">So
far, all I have heard is speculation. Lets try and
get some facts before making decisions.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 8, 2020 at
5:59 PM Kenny Richards <<a
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<div dir="auto">Just my $0.02 - but if the camera was
hit by lightning, it needs to be replaced. It will
always be iffy now...<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Sent via radio waves!</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Do
you know what kind of cable it was?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> PSDR [mailto:<a
href="mailto:psdr-bounces@hamwan.org"
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Rob Martin via
PSDR<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 8, 2020
1:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Puget Sound Data Ring<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [HamWAN PSDR] East
Tiger – PTZ Camera</span></p>
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<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The
PTZ camera at ETiger has been
unreliable for some time. </span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Rich
(KF7BJI) and I were at the site
yesterday (2020-08-07), and now I
can fill in some of the details. </span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The
camera is located about
three-quarters of the way up the
tower used by the SeaTac Repeater
Association. This tower is about 50m
away from the ETiger HamWAN site.
STRA uses the callsign W7WWI on most
of its repeaters.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The
POE power supply and the Cat5 cable
up the tower have been damaged by a
lightning strike.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The
power supply needs to be replaced.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The
Cat5 cable has water inside the
jacket, something that went
unnoticed until the damaged Ethernet
connector was cut off. Water dripped
out, lots of it. Most of the cable
runs tight against the tower, and I
speculate that the outer jacket was
punctured by the lightning.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">I
am hoping that the camera itself may
still be functional. Despite the
above problems, there were occasions
when images could be recovered. If
the power to the camera was
disconnected for an hour or so, the
camera worked for a few minutes
after restart.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">The
repair will involve a tower climb to
replace the cable. Unfortunately we
will have to open the camera’s
sealed enclosure to access the cable
end.</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">We
hope to have this work done soon. No
promises!</span></p>
<p><span
style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Rob
K7QJ</span></p>
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