Kurt, If you ran it on the bench with 225 foot of Cat5 and pulling real-world throughput (so it would draw max current and drop max voltage) and it ran OK (and the voltage measured OK) then you should be fine.
jack Kurt Fankhauser wrote: > I was working on a water tower today and I have a new 24v model WAR-METRO at > the top. I have not powered it yet but it will be on about 225 foot of 24 > gauge CAT5. My question is does anyone know what the max input voltage is on > these things? Wlanparts.com lists it as 24v-48v input and I was trying to > search the STAR-OS forums and Lonnie I think mentioned 48v is the absolute > max and that 48.1v will start damaging the board. I have a 48v power supply > bought from RFLINX in hand that I would like to use. If my calculations are > right by the time the voltage gets up the Ethernet at this footage it will > be outputting around 46-47 volts so it should not damage the board at that > range. I have ran the board on the same 48v power supply on the bench and it > ran fine for the few minutes it was plugged in. > > > > Looking for comments from anyone that may have ran a 24v METRO board on 48v > POE or similar. > > > > Kurt Fankhauser > WAVELINC > P.O. Box 126 > Bucyrus, OH 44820 > 419-562-6405 > www.wavelinc.com > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > -- Jack Unger - President, Ask-Wi.Com, Inc. Serving the Broadband Wireless Industry Since 1993 Cisco Press Author - "Deploying License-Free Wireless WANs" NEXT ONLINE TRAINING OCTOBER 8th & 9th <http://www.linktechs.net/askwi.asp> FCC Lic. #PG-12-25133 LinkedIn Profile <http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackunger> Phone 818-227-4220 Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
