Thu Aug 30, 2018 10:49 pm
Unfortunately wifi-stock in the UK told me the power adaptors are ancillary items and not covered by a warranty and only the radio itself would be covered. They told me they’ve tried to RMA adaptors to Mikrotik in the past and they would not accept them. Quite disappointing and unfair really, especially as I would consider the power adaptors to be a critical component for the unit to work and there is also the cost factors every time one fails. Over the years I’ve hardly had any power adaptors fail that have been supplied with CPE hardware, etc, so I’m very surprised (and actually quite shocked) how poor these one have been.
I’m going to have to look at buying my own better quality power adaptors. I kind of wish I had got the Ubiquiti NS 5AC Loco instead now, but it’s too late and I already have the SXTsq 5ac units.
Anyway, in the spec sheet for the SXTsq 5ac it says the voltage can be between 10V and 28V, so is there any reason why I shouldn’t be looking for say a high quality 12V unit or is there an advantage to it being 24V? It also says the max power draw is 7W and I’ve noticed that Ubiquiti have released a 7W version of their 24V gigabit POE adaptor, so I suppose that could also be an option in addition to their regular 12W version.
(BTW: I tried to see if I could reduced the display size of the attached adaptor pic in my earlier post but couldn’t find any obvious way).