[smartBridges] POE flakey???

[Mark P. Sullivan]

sB...this may be something for you to look at closely.

I was troubleshooting a clients bad airBridge unit last night and 
noticed something flakey about the POE unit.

Hope I can describe it...

If you follow the wall plug wire up to the point where you can 
connect/disconnect it from the POE unit there is a chrome plug.  Out 
of the box, this is initially unplugged.

While you are looking at your connected/associated sB product...hold 
that chrome power plug in both hands (one on the power plug side and 
one on the POE side) and twist it 360 degrees around axis.  You will 
notice that the power goes on and off.  I did very small tweaks 
(rotating the chrome plug around axis) until I actually found a spot 
that would cause the sB unit to go (and stay) offline (noticed the 
Ethernet 10 Meg connection go offline "Cable Unplugged").  I then 
tweaked it a bit away from that position and it would go back online 
("10 Meg Cable connected").

I was logged into the sB product (in my case airBridge), and when I 
would twist this connector, it would lose association (obviously...due 
to loss of power) and then twist it back and it would reassociate.

I tried this with several POE units and power cables.  All with the 
same results.  Given some more time, I will have to check the POE 
power pins and see if there are "sweet spots" on this chrome plug that 
allow the full 12 volts to pass.  Or vice versa.

Can someone else confirm my findings please??

Sully
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