Thanks Forrest. It was a mix of 450 and 100 series.  They all appear to have 
been damaged.  The only thing I get an Ethernet link light on is a bh50 radio

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> On Apr 24, 2015, at 05:06, Forrest Christian (List Account) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hmm.. I love (not) autocorrect on android... port, not portal...  But now I'm 
> on a real computer and have a chance to re-read the original message, and 
> think a bit... I think I need to change my final answer.
> 
> If these were 100 series radios I'd say "that seems rather odd that this 
> would cause a failure".   BUT...  I'm assuming these are 450 radios.
> 
> With the 450, there's a ethernet transformer on each pair.  To DC, this is 
> effectively a short.   Or since these are made with very thin wire you could 
> probably more accurately call it a 'fuse'.   So if you take a pair and put 
> say the + lead of a 24V power source on one wire in the pair, and the return 
> (-) on the other pair, you'd find that the wire in the transformer would 
> melt, and would probably do so very quickly.  This is *exactly* the wiring 
> that the 320/430 radios used.  In addition, there is every possibility that 
> the current being drawn before melting is smaller than the amount of current 
> needed by a real 320 or 430 radio on power on.   So, when this got plugged 
> in, there's a good chance that you melted the ethernet transformers.
> 
> The good news is if this is what has happened, it should be a fairly easy fix 
> by almost any electronic repair shop which knows how to rework surface mount 
> boards - just remove the magnetics and replace them.   
> 
> Unless of course there was another cause.
> 
> -forrest
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Due to the odd wiring the radios probably shorted out the overcurrent 
>> protection in the injectors, turning off the portal and I'd not be surprised 
>> if the radios are just fine.   Especially if they were never plugged into an 
>> already on injector. 
>> 
>> So we accidentally put sync injectors on to a din rail today that were for 
>> the 320/430 radios.  Oops
>> 
>> Both of the injectors were powered by a 24 V 10 amp power supply
>> All of the radios that were plugged into those injectors no longer appear to 
>> boot up which wouldn't surprise me if there had been a 56 V power supply or 
>> 48 V power supply powering them.  However since they were powered by a 24 V 
>> power supply how could that have damaged the radios?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
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