Hi,
Winter is coming! Today, I swapped my summer wheels for winter wheels on the cars, got the snow shovels out, put away patio furniture that we won't use in the winter and drained the garden hoses along with the hose bibs at the inside water shut-off valves.
After dinner, I found this in my e-mail.
I had turned the water off to the front hose-bib, then unscrewed the drain plug. My wife was resting so I decided not to disturb her and went outside and opened on the faucet thus allowing air to enter the hose bib to drain about a foot of 1/2" pipe into the house. Normally my wife would hold up a bucket/rag and catch the water. Today, I took a stupid shortcut and should have wrapped a towel around the pipe.
My inside wiring did not have drip loops, but does now! Water had travelled right down the black cable into the POE Injector.
The RJ45 connector looked like this:
... and the guts of the power segment of the POE Injector (made for indoor use only) were fried.
I cut off the RJ45 connector and 2 inches of cable and installed a new connector. I had a spare POE Injector, installed it and by the time I walked from the furnace room to my desk, the camera was up and running again.
Phew. Please learn from my situation and be safe - install drip loops on all cabling!
/dan
Winter is coming! Today, I swapped my summer wheels for winter wheels on the cars, got the snow shovels out, put away patio furniture that we won't use in the winter and drained the garden hoses along with the hose bibs at the inside water shut-off valves.
After dinner, I found this in my e-mail.
Below is the last frame that NX Witness recorded from my Front Yard/Door camera. Some bozo (me!) entering the house after finishing the winter preparation tasks.
After confirming there was no RTSP stream to NX Witness and yes, the camera was un-pingable, I went into the furnace room where the POE Injector lives and quickly figured out what had happened.I had turned the water off to the front hose-bib, then unscrewed the drain plug. My wife was resting so I decided not to disturb her and went outside and opened on the faucet thus allowing air to enter the hose bib to drain about a foot of 1/2" pipe into the house. Normally my wife would hold up a bucket/rag and catch the water. Today, I took a stupid shortcut and should have wrapped a towel around the pipe.
My inside wiring did not have drip loops, but does now! Water had travelled right down the black cable into the POE Injector.
The RJ45 connector looked like this:
... and the guts of the power segment of the POE Injector (made for indoor use only) were fried.
I cut off the RJ45 connector and 2 inches of cable and installed a new connector. I had a spare POE Injector, installed it and by the time I walked from the furnace room to my desk, the camera was up and running again.
Phew. Please learn from my situation and be safe - install drip loops on all cabling!
/dan
