I'm running home-made Power Over Ethernet about 40' to a WAP on my roof. The WAP's standard AC adapter puts out 5V DC at 2A, which comes out on the roof as 6.2V DC. Apparently there was significant amperage loss over the 40' because the WAP would not function at that voltage.
So I substituted an AC adapter that puts out 6.5V DC at 2A, which comes out on the roof as 7.8V DC. And the WAP works fine. Then I disabled the WAP's power saving mode, which boosted the signal strength by 10%, but the WAP failed intermittently. I infer that the non-power-saving mode wants a little more power, which my AC adapter can't deliver. The WAP worked fine again when I re-enabled power saving mode, but I lost that 10% signal gain. So I'd like to get an adapter that could put out 7V or 8V DC, which would be about 8.3V to 9.3V at the roof. And that leads to my question... Is there a point beyond which the voltage would be too high for my 5-volt-rated WAP? Alan in San Jose __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
