If you are using R-Rhy or R-MACPhy, then you're going to have to change the tap housings on some designs where power is sent to a node through an output from another node. I, seen it a few times where groups of up to six nodes are fed off the same power supply. The output of node three goes to a term tap with a power inserter that runs to the term tap with a power inserter on and an output of node four, which in turn powers nodes five and six. Antronix says their new tap plates and housings will pass voltage without dropping it during a swap. I have some, but have not tested them yet. Nobody wants to get an outage call because they swapped a tap plate and three RPDs are taking 20 minutes to reboot.
its great that one of my systems switched to rmd. i can put in higher value taps now that its just a drop going to a modem, and the rest is iptv. no high ds levels needed for cpe gear as there are no longer any splitters, and less cpd thanks to adding higher value taps, and no need to crank the bejesus out of the amps. only issue now is our engineering department is leaving sc-qam upstream as they are paranoid about going ofdma on the upstream and increasing upload speeds. its weird, but not my place. i upgraded the cards in my e6000 at my other headend a few years ago for ofdma, but still no ofdma in use. we don't run coax anymore now. all new construction is ftth, i do like that my rmd towns are small, and we can just daisy chain rmd nodes instead of a seperate fiber from the headend to a new node. that saves a lot of capitol, and the initial switch to rmd will pay for itself just in the power bill savings after turning everything off but a switch, ont transport, a console, and a ups. that's over 5k per month in power bill savings. i hate those ks barrel splices, i have issues with them not biting on the pin properly, and if there is more than 5 amps of current on the cable they burn open
Thanks for watching and for the update @sragga. RMDs are really getting good feedback from people that are using them, so thanks for your experience with them. Hopefully you'll get OFDMA soon. :)
Nice podcast, thanks for answering my question. I enjoy this sort of open ended QA-style show. I will say the paper looks interesting.
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If you are using R-Rhy or R-MACPhy, then you're going to have to change the tap housings on some designs where power is sent to a node through an output from another node. I, seen it a few times where groups of up to six nodes are fed off the same power supply. The output of node three goes to a term tap with a power inserter that runs to the term tap with a power inserter on and an output of node four, which in turn powers nodes five and six.
Antronix says their new tap plates and housings will pass voltage without dropping it during a swap. I have some, but have not tested them yet. Nobody wants to get an outage call because they swapped a tap plate and three RPDs are taking 20 minutes to reboot.
Great information @Todd.T Thanks for watching and thanks for the tips and info on Antronix.
its great that one of my systems switched to rmd. i can put in higher value taps now that its just a drop going to a modem, and the rest is iptv. no high ds levels needed for cpe gear as there are no longer any splitters, and less cpd thanks to adding higher value taps, and no need to crank the bejesus out of the amps. only issue now is our engineering department is leaving sc-qam upstream as they are paranoid about going ofdma on the upstream and increasing upload speeds. its weird, but not my place. i upgraded the cards in my e6000 at my other headend a few years ago for ofdma, but still no ofdma in use. we don't run coax anymore now. all new construction is ftth, i do like that my rmd towns are small, and we can just daisy chain rmd nodes instead of a seperate fiber from the headend to a new node. that saves a lot of capitol, and the initial switch to rmd will pay for itself just in the power bill savings after turning everything off but a switch, ont transport, a console, and a ups. that's over 5k per month in power bill savings. i hate those ks barrel splices, i have issues with them not biting on the pin properly, and if there is more than 5 amps of current on the cable they burn open
Thanks for watching and for the update @sragga. RMDs are really getting good feedback from people that are using them, so thanks for your experience with them. Hopefully you'll get OFDMA soon. :)
Hi frome Belgium, ive noticed that yhe Mer on the digital noeds are up to 48 and 50 on ofdm while on analog the Mer at best 41
Hi @letsTalkgeography thanks for watching and for the feedback. Great MER on the digital nodes!