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9 additional lightning protection, 1 odu mounted outdoors, Additional lightning protection – Motorola PTP 400 Series User Manual

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13.9 Additional

Lightning

Protection

The following guidelines should be applied in addition to those described in Section 11

Lightning Protection”.

13.9.1 ODU Mounted Outdoors

Where the ODU is mounted outdoors and is mounted some distance from the antenna it is

advisable to add additional grounding by utilizing Andrew Assemblies (such as Andrew Type

223158

www.andrew.com

) as shown in Figure 91.

Connectorized ODU

Antenna Cable

Antenna Cable

Antenna Cable

Grounded to

tower

Antenna Cables

Grounded to tower

Antenna Cable

Grounded to

tower

Antenna cables should be grounded

within 0.3 metres (1 foot) of the ODU

and Antennas using the Andrew

Grounding Assembly

Figure 91 - Additional Grounding When Using Connectorized Units