The Outdoor Cabling Components
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Outdoor Antenna Installation Guide
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DANGER:
Outdoor antennas and antenna cables are electrical
conductors. Transients or electrostatic discharges that may
occur at the antenna (for example a lightning strike during
thunderstorms) may damage your electronic equipment
and cause personal injury or death to persons touching
the exposed metal connectors of the antenna cable.
To avoid damage and personal injury, the entire antenna
cabling system must be grounded at all times.
When installing, disconnecting or replacing one of the
cabling components, you must ensure at all times that
each exposed metal connectors of the antenna cabling
system will be grounded locally during the work.
For example when mounting or replacing the
WaveACCESS Surge Arrester:
1.
First connect each of the connectors of the low-loss
antenna cables to the grounding system
2.
Next connect the cable connector of the
WaveACCESS Cable Assembly to the grounding
system.
3.
Finally connect the WaveACCESS Surge Arrester to
the grounding system.
Before you proceed, verify that each of the items is
properly grounded, and that the ground will not interrupted
when disconnecting one of the antenna system
components.
Check with a qualified electrician if you are in doubt as to
whether the surge arrester, and cable connectors are
properly grounded.
Only after you have verified that each of the items is properly
grounded, replace the surge arrester and re-connect the cables in
exactly the reverse order of the previous steps.
