I think the Pac Wireless would be cheaper for 1amp. It's definitely easier to mount.
I had problems in October/November with the camera on a Rocket M2 GPS. It's been just fine since December (to today, May). It has been running a 5.5beta since around this time, I believe. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Ben West <[email protected]> wrote: > As a previous poster mentioned, this feature on Nanostation M5 and M2 is > called POE passthrough, and it has a checkbox to enable it on the AirOS web > UI. > > This will let you power a 2nd 24V POE device from the "Secondary" port of > the Nanostation, using a single POE supply. I use the POE-24-1 (aka 24V > 1amp) supply from UBNT when powering 2 devices like this. I've read other > folks on the UBNT customer forum try powering more than 2 units from a > single power supply, e.g. 2 Nanostations and then a 3rd device daisy-chained > together, tho I believe UBNT doesn't support this. > > HOWEVER, do please note the POE passthrough feature on the Nanostation M's > has been consistently problematic. When I first tried to have an NSM5 power > a 2nd access point 18months ago, I found that my NSM5's would commonly burn > out a FET inside after ~1week operation, causing the POE enable switch to > henceforth become stuck on regardless of firmware setting. Sometimes this > burn out event would put the NSM5 in a reboot loop until I reflashed it. > > More recently, it seems UBNT might have released a batch of NSM5 that > actually brick themselves when you enable the POE passthrough, requiring an > RMA. I had just this happen to an NSM5 I bought in April. > https://forum.ubnt.com/showthread.php?p=270549 > > The suggested work-around, as mentioned above, is to swap the Main and > Secondary ports on the Nanostation if you want to power a 2nd device, and > not use firmware POE passthrough enable at all. > > On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Greg Ihnen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> A good thing to know about the UBNT gear is if for some reason supplying >> PoE via the "main" port stops working, you can supply PoE via the >> "secondary" port whether or not the PoE passthrough option is enabled. >> >> Greg >> >> -- >> Ben West >> http://gowasabi.net >> [email protected] >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wireless mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > _______________________________________________ Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
