Hi Gurus,
I am pretty new to Mikrotik, but have successfully put into production a 4WAN PCC load balanced 450G.
Its performance is great, but sometimes things are not balancing all that well. I have narrowed it down to either our modems losing performance, or possible the ac adapter i used for it.
I used a 12v 700ma AC adapter. I know it can take an input from say 10-30v, but i did hear some issues with people having their unit burn out their capacistors on the 24v if it is an older model. I have one of each, and was considering putting the other one on the 12v adapter too to save the capasitors life, but now im not so sure.
Speaking with this electrical engineer i know (my dad), we came up with is the router wanted say more watts of power, then 12v at 700ma may not cut it and more would be outside the range of the ac adapter, but a 15v 700ma could cover the need for more watts. I really dont know how or what the maximum power requirements are for equipment that is running higher loads like load balancing 40mbps with routing and all that on.
I know for wireless, if you under-power a unit (long cable runs) then it will begin to freak out on higher loads.
Trying to figure out the core of this problem!
(i did read somewhere in here someone had their equipment hang with a 12v adapter, but only with a specific firmware version) I had mine on for days (no load) and it never hung. And i know this one isnt crashing as its been up and running, but the throughput performance gets shakey sometimes where the one next to it doesnt. Same PCC setup.
Thanks again
Thanks!