Installation Guide
Table Of Contents
- CCU100 and Repeater100 Installation Guide
- Important Safety and Compliance Information
- 1 Before You Begin
- 2 CCU/Repeater Basics
- 3 Planning a CCU/Repeater Installation
- 4 Installing the Collector or Repeater
- 5 Battery Care and Maintenance
- A Detailed Collector or Repeater Specifications
- B Port and Protocol Requirements
- C Status and Diagnostics
- D Changing the Repeater Password
- E Antenna Line Sweeps Procedure
- Anritsu Site Master Calibration
- Testing on a Network Device with a Remotely-Mounted 915 MHz Antenna
- Understanding Party Responsibilities
- Itron ChoiceConnect Antenna and Line Sweep Test Form
- Itron ChoiceConnect 915 MHz Antenna Specifications
- Typical Coaxial Cable Specification Summary Table
- Sample Sweeps Output
- F Grounding Specifications
- Understanding Grounding and Bonding
- Exterior Grounding System Design for Concentrators
- Equipment Buried Ground Ring
- Chemical Ground Rod Installation
- Itron Concentrator Equipment
- Installing Coax Ground Kits
- Collector Sites with Indoor Itron TCU / CCU Equipment
- Grounding Rooftop Network Devices
- Down Conductor Installation
- Cold Water Pipe Option
- Building Steel Option
- Antenna and Coax Grounding - Rooftops
- Grounding antennas on rooftops
- Cable Tray Grounding
- Water Tower Grounding
- New Wooden and Concrete Antenna Poles
- Equipment Shelter Grounding
- Repeaters on Communication Tower Sites
- Repeaters on Rooftops
- Multiple Story Site Ground System
- Down Conductors Installation - Building / Shelter Penetrations
- Down Conductors Installation - Limits of Bend Radius
- Down Conductors Installation Connection Methods
- Cable Entrance Facilities
- Clamp-On Ground Resistance Testing
- Understanding Party Responsibilities
Itron recommends using a handheld GPS unit to verify your GPS antenna mounting location
can receive a signal from at least three satellites.
For more information, see GPS and WAN Coverage on page 22.
Caution: You must install the external GPS antenna in a vertical orientation, and the
antenna must have an unobstructed view of the southern sky (North America and
Europe) to properly receive a GPS signal.
The external GPS/WAN antenna system is shown below.
Item Description
1 External GPS antenna
Receives GPS data from orbiting satellites. The cable
connection on the bottom of this antenna is TNC female.
2 Mounting bracket
Attaches the antenna to your desired mounting location.
3 Antenna masts
Provide support for the GPS and WAN antennas. Cables
for each antenna are routed through the masts. Clamps
on the front of the mounting bracket secure the masts.
4 External WAN antenna (CCU only)
Provides the wide-area network (WAN) signal for the
CCU. The repeater does not use this antenna. The cable
connection on the bottom of this antenna is N female.
915 MHz Antenna
The 915 MHz antenna transmits and receives data messages from endpoints and repeaters in
the network.
CCU100 and Repeater100 Installation Guide 2 CCU/Repeater Basics
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