User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Important Safety Instructions
- Overview
- The ERU assembly
- Do you have everything?
- Safety precautions
- Introduction
- Installing the ERU
- Installation overview
- Installation guidelines and requirements
- Estimating cable requirements
- Assembling the mounting bracket and pipe
- Installing the ERU on solid wood or lap siding
- Installing the ERU on brick or poured concrete
- Installing the ERU on a cinder-block or hollow wall
- Installing the ERU under the eaves
- Installing the ERU on a roof
- Attaching the ERU to the mounting assembly
- Routing and grounding the exterior cables
- Routing cable to the SOMAport
- Troubleshooting
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Introduction
Do you have everything?
Before you begin, make sure you have everything you will need during the
installation.
The basic ERU kit
Verify that the kit contains the following parts:
ERU
Mounting pipe
Mounting bracket
Four 5/16-inch x 2-inch lag screws
Seven 5/16-inch flat washers
Three 5/16-inch x 1-inch bolts
The installation kit
The installation kit is an optional set of mounting hardware provided for
subscribers who want to install the antenna themselves. The kit contains the
hardware you need to install the ERU on a variety of surfaces (wall, roof, and
under the eaves). If you have this kit, verify that it contains the following parts:
Ground block
22 m (75 feet) of hybrid RG-6/U coaxial cable with messengered #17 AWG
copper-clad steel grounding wire
15 m (50 feet) of RG-6/U coaxial cable
7.6 m (25 feet) of #10 AWG copper grounding wire
Oxide-inhibiting compound
10 cable clips
One #10 washer-head screw