A customer of mine bought 2 x LtAP LTE6 kits and 2 x R11e-LTE6 modems and dropped off by me to install for him.
Following the instructions as per Mikrotik, thermal pads needs to be used on the 2nd modem installed in the router.
My question is why is the thermal pads not supplied with the modem, now I have to drive around between electronic shops to try and get this, delaying delivery to my customer. Ontop of this, the average Joe on the street is not going to read the instructions and just install the modem as is, which I assume will void warranty, etc should it fail.
Great, but the word “optionally” is missing in the manual for LtAP, yet so do the “thicker” and “thinner” pads it refers to in the box with that product. A single thermal pad (not specified whether the “thicker” or “thinner” one) is bundled with wAP R according to its product page, but no information about the required thickness and other dimensions can be found on the product pages, nor the pad itself as a saleable item.
Analogy, to build a wall you can stack the bricks on top op each other, or “Optionally” use cement mix between the bricks
Wonder which is the correct way???
another thing, these thermal pads seems to be fairly difficult to get hold of, i.e. I have to do a round trip of 100km from where I am to get this, and also expensive to the man on the street, with the volume Mikrotik does, I am sure they can pass a HUGE saving to the end user by adding these thermal pads in the packaging, which will also ensure the device is installed correctly and lifetime is possibly extended.
Is not necessary use the thermal pad, in fact, sometimes it causes failures on installed LTE modems after x time of working. Interface dissapear magically.
From lte cat.16 lte modules are hot… and have a option to disable CA (back to 1x band only) for cool-down… and that’s new LHGGR have them but module must be as mPCIe only (means Telit who not support Cell Lock ).
for R11e-LTE6 we use it just without any additional pad.
