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
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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]
>>
>>
>
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