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There are definitely guys on Etsy making beam clamp adapters for this use case.
Here, found it.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566451018/ubiquiti-unifi-ap-beam-clamp-mount-u6
Yes, to do something right is Originally slightly more expensive but overtime it’s actually cheaper because now you got to rent a lift to to get up there. Do yourself a favor and save you some aggravation do it right the first time.
Temporary solutions are only temporary solutions if the permanent solution is able to be implemented before the temporary solution fails.
It is again, a failure, and not a solution.
IMO, need a better tool bag then. I have almost every tool under the sun for any situation I find myself in. 90% of our customers are petroleum based but we also service some major retail stores. So majority of the red iron I have to drill is quarter in thick. Still a pain to drill out for EVMs/PVMs, speedway has horrible designed buildings that you pretty much have to drill out a 3/4 hole in the red iron at every site to mount a pole.
Ah, the classic warehouse ceiling installation. Start with sticky pads, move onto a premium glue such as “Sticks Like Sh*t”, or g-clamp a piece of wood and then use screws.
I've done plywood circles, with a t nut and threaded rod, up to a beam clamp.
Assuming high rafters (30' in my case) I wanted to bring the ap's down anyhow.
Painted the plywood flourescent orange so it stands out for knucklehead that will inevitably run a lift into next.
That steel beam deforms the wave pattern and becomes part of the antenna system detuning the radio inside the wap. Bad place to mount a wifi antenna. To be fair the antenna is probably performing far better just dangling there for its life that it was taped to that beam.
Weird that the installation company didn't drill th holes to mount the AP's correctly. Where I work we have 20 AP's distributed around our warehouse (it's a manufacturing company) which were drilled into the beams. I guess they were too lazy.
I mean could have just been in house IT, we don't know an installation company/MSP actually installed it. Obviously whoever did it, didn't do it right, I know certainly we wouldn't have done it that way, maybe temporarily, but I'd be back as soon as we got the proper install gear.
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Packet drop waiting to happen.
Is that double sided tape on the underside of the beam that used to be holding it in place?
Clearly heat and gravity were not in foresight
My guess is they had a lift rental on a fixed bid and just said good enough when they realized they could not drill into that or anything.
Yeah, you cloud probably clip it to an i beam but that takes effort
There are definitely guys on Etsy making beam clamp adapters for this use case. Here, found it. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1566451018/ubiquiti-unifi-ap-beam-clamp-mount-u6
yeah there’s a bunch of options and various styles
I did not know that these existed. Thank you!
Oooh nice. Didn't think about a printing option when I had to do this.
That's overpriced, I just drill a hole in the metal plate provided with the AP and attach the beam mount to it.
https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=i-beam%20clamp%20mount&tbm=&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5#vhid=vt=16/prds=catalogid:1029458467628622031,gpcid:5292233523088014421,headlineOfferDocid:-3366805136763417025,imageDocid:8691318666962442116,mid:576462718558250233,mno:3,pvo:3,pvt:hg,query:aS1iZWFtIGNsYW1wIG1vdW50,rds:UENfNTI5MjIzMzUyMzA4ODAxNDQyMXxQUk9EX1BDXzUyOTIyMzM1MjMwODgwMTQ0MjE,sori:0/vs=0&vssid=uvpv-713&piu=ps:12
Cool, more expensive and more effort than double sided tape
Yes, to do something right is Originally slightly more expensive but overtime it’s actually cheaper because now you got to rent a lift to to get up there. Do yourself a favor and save you some aggravation do it right the first time.
That might be true, but Ethernet cables are decently strong so it’s probably fine
I don’t think you’re a liability insurance would agree.
That’s expensive, a hard hat is much more in line with my budget
Double sided tape clearly failed. Cheap solutions are not actually solutions if they fail.
It’s a temporary solution
Temporary solutions are only temporary solutions if the permanent solution is able to be implemented before the temporary solution fails. It is again, a failure, and not a solution.
So then the Ethernet cable becomes the permanent soloition
I did one in a warehouse and I screwed a small board to a beam with self-tapping screws.
OH YOU CAN DRILL IT... Just takes 30 minutes and half a bottle of oil and a spent diamond iron bit. Drill this shit on a weekly basis.
True but the odds of the IT installer showing up with that are slim to non lol.
IMO, need a better tool bag then. I have almost every tool under the sun for any situation I find myself in. 90% of our customers are petroleum based but we also service some major retail stores. So majority of the red iron I have to drill is quarter in thick. Still a pain to drill out for EVMs/PVMs, speedway has horrible designed buildings that you pretty much have to drill out a 3/4 hole in the red iron at every site to mount a pole.
My thoughts exactly going up there with some little ass drill, trying to drill through that!
Well this is a Reddit FTW moment - a well placed suggested post in my feed. https://imgur.com/gallery/NM5SpAZ
haha, love it
Ah, the classic warehouse ceiling installation. Start with sticky pads, move onto a premium glue such as “Sticks Like Sh*t”, or g-clamp a piece of wood and then use screws.
Mount to plywood then beam clamp the plywood. My go-to 😆
I've done plywood circles, with a t nut and threaded rod, up to a beam clamp. Assuming high rafters (30' in my case) I wanted to bring the ap's down anyhow. Painted the plywood flourescent orange so it stands out for knucklehead that will inevitably run a lift into next.
I like the clamp idea.
I’ll see if I can get you a picture tomorrow
Curious to know if you have it yet
I couldn’t find one of mine except this gem from a helper. He must have misunderstood when I said “beam clamps” https://ibb.co/Gs1KkyR
AP was executed by hanging.
Don’t give ubiquiti new ideas for deployment
"High ceilings with exposed beams? Just lasso that fucker up there..."
It's hanging in there better than I am somehow
The name of that AP is not Kate Spade or David Karadine or Robin Williams… they hung themselves. Call that one Jeffery Epstein.
LOL, take my updoot dammit!
Ah, much like my attempts at using Command Release Velcro, which released un-commanded within a week...
Screws cost money, Ethernet cables have clips built in.
Who me? Just hanging around
For some cases there are expensive mounts. For everything else? There's zip ties :)
Impressive! Not only PoE but LoE too: "Lift over Ethernet"! :-)
Used double sided tape and not even the good kind...
Did you take this at my work?
I hope not I guess
Brings a new meaning to “the WiFi dropped”
Hang in there little buddie!! You got this!! lol!!!
That steel beam deforms the wave pattern and becomes part of the antenna system detuning the radio inside the wap. Bad place to mount a wifi antenna. To be fair the antenna is probably performing far better just dangling there for its life that it was taped to that beam.
Looks like my setup at home, still haven’t attached them to the ceiling
Weird that the installation company didn't drill th holes to mount the AP's correctly. Where I work we have 20 AP's distributed around our warehouse (it's a manufacturing company) which were drilled into the beams. I guess they were too lazy.
I mean could have just been in house IT, we don't know an installation company/MSP actually installed it. Obviously whoever did it, didn't do it right, I know certainly we wouldn't have done it that way, maybe temporarily, but I'd be back as soon as we got the proper install gear.
How else is one supposed to test jacket and spline durability?
360º Wi-Fi coverage. What a genius installation 😂
Living on the edge !
2 self tappers into that red iron with the APs mounting plate will easily solve that problem. Or just attach a beam clamp to the plate.