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FTTC DSLAMs and the flooding
10-02-2014 1:09 PM
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Seeing as the flooding is getting progressively worse, I have a few questions about the FTTC DSLAMs in flooded areas:
What happens to the DSLAMs in flooded areas?
Are Openreach turning off the power to them?
I am assuming they are IP65, but will the water damage or ruin them?
What happens to the DSLAMs in flooded areas?
Are Openreach turning off the power to them?
I am assuming they are IP65, but will the water damage or ruin them?
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Re: FTTC DSLAMs and the flooding
10-02-2014 4:33 PM
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I'd doubt they are IP65 much less IP68 for full immersion!
Probably something like IP43 to be secure against full scale thunderstorms and driving rain.
Even if they switch them off I wonder what the ?4? hour UPS backup battery in them is rated to IP wise? - you really would not want that to short out and go bang.
Then you have to account for the point that sewage/contaminated water almost certainly could/will get into them so that's a H&S issue even if it does dry out and mysteriously still work.
I'd hazard a wild guess that a fully/part flooded one is scrap.
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