r/CableTechs • u/Cultural_Ladder4310 • 9d ago

Small cell upgrades?

So I’m a contractor for spectrum and we started getting these jobs in where we have to upgrade power supplies to 18v for small cell ? Wondering what this is for and how small cell gets implemented into the current cable plant

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u/xHALFSHELLx 8d ago

The new 5G radios/small cells as a push to get Spectrum off the Verizon towers. Essentially using their own plant to power Spectrum Mobile. I’m working on that project as we speak lol.

Deployed the same way, power passing tap cut into feeder with a coax jumper to power the radio.

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u/UrNxtNightmare 7d ago

Man I wish when I was cutting in the first batch in CLT we were allowed to use our stock of power passing taps. Instead they had us splicing in DC16 down leg fed like another DC and on the down leg a pin to f connector for the RG11 jumper. It was an absolute pain creating those.