I have one recent confirmed case of an AP105 drawing just north of 19W. The AP was also intermittently dropping off the network(that's the reason I found it was drawing 19W) so I thought something had to be wrong with it and replaced it. I have had several similar cases of AP105s intermittently but regularly dropping before this but never thought to check the power draw on them.
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chuck Enfield Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:13 AM To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Aruba AP Power Issue? Hi Folks, We're experiencing a significant number of problems where our PoE switches report that Aruba AP-105s are drawing more than 15.4W. When this happens our switches shut off the power to the offending AP. The problem is intermittent, but seems to occur repeatedly on the same APs, while never occurring on other APs. Our diagnostics have eliminated excessive loss in the cabling as the culprit, which seems to leave two possibilities. Either there are some Aruba AP-105s which are using more power than they are supposed to, or our switches are incorrectly measuring the power consumption of the APs. If the APs are at fault, it's unlikely that we would be the only ones with this problem. Is anybody else having any issues with Aruba AP-105s drawing more than 15.4W? Thanks, Chuck Enfield Sr. Communications Engineer Telecommunications & Networking Services The Pennsylvania State University 110H, USB2, UP, PA 16802 ph: 814.863.8715 fx: 814.865-3988 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
