I have seen it too, on the end that is coming out of the powershot their is a center pin. bend this pin a few degrees to one side. Don't bend it so much that it touches the other conductor. The pin will now contact the inner wall of the power plug with out much problem. I have had to do that on several smartbridges. It is from poor quality parts with low +- tolerance standards (center pin 2.5mm + - x%) the higher the x% (more leeway) in tolerance, the cheaper the part. I also have barrel plugs slip out every once in a while. I wish they would go to a standardized locking plug.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark P. Sullivan Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [smartBridges] POE flakey??? 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 The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
