Nick,
We are looking at doing this at out campus and the way we have decided to
get power to them is a Small POE switch in the light pole. And now we are
running into the problem where our physical plant is only running 120V to the
pole so now we have to look into how we are going to power
The 1530s we have installed are in a single building. They were mounted
directly on the exterior walls. So power was not an issue as we used PoE . We
have not mounted any 1530s on poles yet.
Have you looked at the AP adapter? I think this is what you need if you were to
mount it to a pole.
We have been using the power adapter listed above for our 1532's on pole
mounts with success. Essentially we place the power adapter in a NEMA box
and mount the radio to the outside of the NEMA box. The hard part for us is
all of our light poles run on photo cells so the existing power at the
While Matt O'Brien touched on it.. I just wanted to point this out.
The Cisco outdoor AP line has always had a streetlight tap, for the 1530
series, it's AIR-PWR-ST-LT-R3P=
You remove the photocell off the streetlight, this plugs into the photocell
socket, and then the photocell is plugged into
