Default power grid voltage for Mikrotik devices

Which power grid does the Mikrotik devices work on by default?

For example - let’s refer to the device hAP ax2 (Product code “C52iG-5HaxD2HaxD-TC”) - Link to webpage:
https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ax2#fndtn-specifications

Is it supposed to work on 230V power grid ( = EU) ?
Or is it supposed to work on a 110V power grid ( = US ) ?

It depends on where you buy It.
The included power supply (external brick) is a 24V 1.2A one, available both with US plug (and suitable for 110V AC) or with EU plug (and suitable for 220-240V):
https://mikrotik.com/product/saw30_240_1200ga#fndtn-specifications

But of course you can use any suitable to your local grid DC power supply, the AX2 is rather flexible and accepts 12-28V DC.

If you zoom in on the picture of the power supply you’ll see that it is good for 100-240V at 50/60 hertz. So it is universal. Obviously using a EU prong will require an adapter to use in US outlets and vice versa.



Thank you gabacho4 and jaclaz.

I found a version of hAP ax2 which is “UK version” according to seller:

Product code: “RBC52IG-5HAX2HAX-UK”
https://cdr.pl/p9366,mikrotik-routerboard-c52ig-5haxd2haxd-tc-hap-ax2-bezprzewodowy-router-ax1800-5x-ge-wersja-uk.html

What does “UK version” mean?

Probably that it has UK-pattern pins on the plug. Sfaik everything else is configured in software in RoS.

When sourcing wireless devices from abroad, one has to be careful about devices intended for US market … they are often locked to channels and power allowed in US. Even if powered by EU or UK external power adapters :wink:
Devices sold elsewhere are “international” out from factory (but there were cases when reseller/ISP locked them to local country … which is possible to undo unlike US-locking).

I understand.
The UK plug has 3-pins.
I guess that the “default” (non-UK) plug has only 2 pins, which should be “standard” and work across EU.

How could I know if the device is locked to US wireless channels/power?
I didn’t find it written on the webpage of the product sold at the reseller.
Also the webpage of the product in Mikrotik website doesn’t specify these things.

Australian plugs also have 3 pins and we use 230V but the pins are physically incompatible with UK. Configs default to Latvia.

I suspect that items shipped here come without cables or power packs at all, but local ones are added by the distributor. Some boxes bulge from ill-fitting power supplies so maybe they are added by the manufacturer but the boxes are too minimalist for our plugs and supplies.

Yes and no (things are far more complex).

Sockets (regardless of the country) have three contacts since many, many years, live, neutral and ground/earth.

Plugs can have 2 or 3 contacts, either only live and neutral or also ground.

The UK (and a few other countries) have a standard where live and neutral have a position (and there is even a fuse on the live inside the plug), rest of the world mainly can invert them.

Low power and Class II (or double insulation) devices are allowed to be not connected to ground, hence the only two contacts in the rest of the world, that is sometimes replicated in the UK with the third contact made of plastic (the UK socket though more complicated than many other countries ones, are very secure, the third prong is needed as it operates a mechanical latch allowing the other two to make contact)

EU sockets are designed mainly to accept two types of plugs, the type C (two pins) designed for max 2.5 A, often called “Europlug” and type G (two pins + earth) often called “Schuko” designed for 16A..

Mikrotik devices such as the Ax2 being “low power” normally have a type C “Europlug”.

Italy and France (only as an example) have slightly different sockets that can anyway accept the “Europlug”.

There are anyway adapters to convert anything to anything else.

About that device you linked to it has explicitly the code RBC52IG-5HAXD2HAX-UK that is a “normal” (non-US) device BUT with a type G plug for the UK, compare the UK version:
https://www.senetic.co.uk/product/C52iG-5HaxD2HaxD-TC
against the (say) Polish one:
https://www.senetic.pl/product/C52IG-5HAXD2HAXD-TC
by the same distributor/reseller.

You can get the UK one and either replace the power brick or use an adapter/converter for the plug.

Mikrotik adds a “-US” in product code. Example: product page of hAP ac² mentions US variant … product code is not mentioned, but other sources know US variant by code RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC**-US** (as opposed to “simply” RBD52G-5HacD2HnD-TC).
And I’m pretty sure that all US-based rerailers will mostly sell US variants because that’s what most of their customers are obliged to purchase (you want to verify with them that they are selling you international variant).





I understand.
Thank you all for the details.