Packing the #LoRaWAN gateway in a waterproof enclosure. Yes, there was a good reason to attach that car lamp light bulb to the box.
I got the wong PoE power supply – micro USB instead of USB-C. And that tiny white converter made the whole thing too large to fit. So we had to make a tiny hole for the cable to fit. But had nothing to close the hole with on hand. We did have a cable gland, which gave us enough space for the power cable. A car light bulb was lying around and it was just the right size to plug the cable gland and keep the whole thing relatively waterproof.
@szescstopni at the dollar store here they sell L Shaped USB-C/micro USB adapters that might come in handy for saving space in an application like this.
@RoboticistDuck I'm sure I could find one easily – had I lived in a larger town. The drive to the nearest electronics store is 60 km there and back. I have no manual skills – most of the work was done by a technician who drove all the way to my place and there was no time to go to a store if we wanted to get the gateway up in the air. More connectors are now on their way – for the second gateway.
@RoboticistDuck We didn't think of that. And we had a lot of cable glands lying around. And that cool drill to make holes in plastic :)
@szescstopni I just see every hole in an enclosure like that (with or without a proper gland) as yet another potential ingress for water 💦
@RoboticistDuck So do I. I've had to replace so many devices that technicians didn't close properly. This is temporary, proof of concept.
@szescstopni it’s definitely a cool setup. Hope you’ll report more activities like this 🗼
@RoboticistDuck Having access to our rural broadband equipment is fun. Here I'm carrying a 6 meter mast to pick apples from an old tree in an abandoned orchard :)
@szescstopni another idea is to cut the plastic housing off the male micro-USB/USB-C connector and let it go naked inside the weather resistant box.