George,

What is a packetflux 5ch PDU? I can't find anything on their site except 4
and 8 port injectors.

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:22 PM, George Skorup <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I have some PacketFlux 5Ch PDUs. I've found the current measurements to be
> fairly accurate. One has an AF24 on it and measures 1020mA, so 49 watts.
> Others with Exalt ExtendAir G2-11's measuring 490-520mA, so 24-25 watts.
> And a pair of SAF Lumina 6GHz HP radios both about 825mA = 39.6 watts while
> the radios themselves say about 870mA and 40.4 watts, so.. close enough.
> All of these are fed from the regulated output Traco BCMU360's in 48V mode.
> I love the 5Ch PDUs + GigE-POE-APCs for +48 backhauls. No fuses to worry
> about. And slightly higher power than a typical POE injector will handle.
>
> On 6/30/2017 5:36 PM, Mathew Howard wrote:
>
> Well, I've always measured them from the DC side, so I could see them
> going drawing that much from the wall.
>
> Kind of interesting, I was just checking some of ours... I have one site,
> where there are two AF-5x plugged being powered from a MikroTik hEX PoE, so
> they both have the exact same power source, similar cable lengths, etc. and
> one is showing 8.1 watts and the other is 10.5 watts. The interesting
> thing, is that the one that's drawing more power actually has less load
> going through it, and judging from the MAC address, is also slightly newer.
> I don't know how accurate those MikroTiks are at measuring current
> (wouldn't surprise me if they're far from accurate), but I would expect
> them to at least be kinda consistent.
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Eric Kuhnke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I really thought I remembered seeing an AF5X about eighteen months ago,
>> drawing 16-17W from the wall, but I could be wrong or the watt meter that
>> it was plugged into was grossly inaccurate. This newer model of kill-a-watt
>> seems to be better.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 7:29 AM, Mathew Howard <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, I think that's pretty consistent with what the AF-5X radios have
>>> always used. The AF5 (not X) and AF24 do use a lot more power.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Stefan Englhardt <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes. All my AF5X use ~10W. UBNT AC use 6W and older MT 11n use 3-4W.
>>>> SAF is 30-35. PTP600 is 50.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:04:44 +0000
>>>>  Rory Conaway <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think you are thinking of the AF24 which cranks 50W all the time.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rory
>>>>>
>>>>> From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Kuhnke
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 6:43 PM
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: [AFMUG] New AF5X using less power than older board revisions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Provisioning a new AF5X link here on their AC PoE injectors before
>>>>> they go out to the field. Something interesting I've noticed, and maybe 
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> not remembering right, but it seems that the newer AF5X use less power 
>>>>> than
>>>>> the older ones.
>>>>>
>>>>> This unit with its ubnt default PoE injector plugged into a
>>>>> kill-a-watt is measuring 11 watts. There's no traffic going through it, 
>>>>> but
>>>>> as I recall an AF5X uses pretty much the same amount whether or not it's
>>>>> under load, since the AF architecture is constantly sending/receiving
>>>>> frames whether or not they have an ethernet data payload.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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