PoE help/advice

[OnaRoll]

I have an outdoor capable AP that uses passive 24v POE

I want to se this up in the garden and there just happens to be an old Sat dish with high quality WF100 coax.

OK so a pair of EOC LINOVISION POE IP Over Coax from Amazon for under 70 notes and powered a 48v switch seems ideal.

However I need 24v at the other end.

The question is can I simply use an outdoor 48v to 24v converter at the AP end ??

Something like this

https://www.ui.com/accessories/instant-8023af-adap...

[Mr Pointy]

What bandwith/bit rate are you hoping to get over that connection?

[OnaRoll]

Mr Pointy said:

What bandwith/bit rate are you hoping to get over that connection?

Even half the quoted 0.1 Gigabits Per Second is more than enough.

It's just for a couple of CCTV cameras. Massive garden.

I could send just 24v down the the coax, use the supplied injector and use the repeater mode but I'm finding repeater mode to be a tad unreliable on 2.4ghz. Walls of the house are very thick with foil insulation too so signal to the indoor router is minimal.

I would prefer a wired setup even if i've to fork out some cash as security of the property is priority right now.

[colin79666]

Couple of car batteries = 24v. You can combine that with a solar panel to charge them.

For not much more than £70 you could just buy the mesh ap that uses proper Poe and power it from one of their newer switches like the us-8 60w (I’m currently powering the flex hd with one of those).

[xeny]

colin79666 said:

Couple of car batteries = 24v. You can combine that with a solar panel to charge them.

For not much more than £70 you could just buy the mesh ap that uses proper Poe and power it from one of their newer switches like the us-8 60w (I’m currently powering the flex hd with one of those).

That's a £100 switch, for not much more than £70.

The cheapest managed 8 port PoE switch I'm aware of is the D-Link DGS-1100-08P, which is currently powering a 6 Lite fine.

[colin79666]

xeny said:

That's a £100 switch, for not much more than £70.

The cheapest managed 8 port PoE switch I'm aware of is the D-Link DGS-1100-08P, which is currently powering a 6 Lite fine.

Depends if you want to manage it all in the UniFi system.

[random_username]

OnaRoll said:

The question is can I simply use an outdoor 48v to 24v converter at the AP end ??

Something like this

https://www.ui.com/accessories/instant-8023af-adap...

Yes, as long as you can get 48v to the converter, one of those should convert it to 24v passive POE.

I used one of those with a 48v POE switch and an 'overlength' cat-5 cable with the converter in the middle to power a 24v UBNT outdoor P-t-P access point. It worked fine...

[xeny]

colin79666 said:

Depends if you want to manage it all in the UniFi system.

In an ideal world, yes, but not at a £40 premium per switch for half as many PoE ports.

[OnaRoll]

random_username said:

OnaRoll said:

The question is can I simply use an outdoor 48v to 24v converter at the AP end ??

Something like this

https://www.ui.com/accessories/instant-8023af-adap...

Yes, as long as you can get 48v to the converter, one of those should convert it to 24v passive POE.

I used one of those with a 48v POE switch and an 'overlength' cat-5 cable with the converter in the middle to power a 24v UBNT outdoor P-t-P access point. It worked fine...

Cheers! This should hopefully make things all work a good bit better.