Shake Rattle and Short Circuit

Today was a warm day for Toronto. Way above seasonal temperature I believe it was 11C Normally about -15C. Good day to go fix a MeshAP that I lost for the last 23 days. Fortunately the person is letting me use their chimney as a MeshAP tower. Well I got up on top of the roof and sure enough open the Nema enclosure to find that the radio card had dislodge itself from the of the PCI adapter on the motherboard. Normally I wire down and glue each component down but I wanted to see how long it would take to shake, rattle and roll. I can tell you it must have been a really strong wind storm because the CF-Flash card was also off. Wind vibration can really knock your units around even if they are bolted to a Chimney. I saw some sparks as I tried to boot the unit back up and sure enough it kept working.

You live and learn!