I have a mikrotik RouterBoard 532,RIC/522E,with one POE port and two ethernet ports that has been working fine since it was depolyed for one of our customers and after a few weeks the onboard POE Port failed.how do i get it to work still using POE?or tell me if there are any other options.
Thanks
You could get a POE slave connector, the slave connector is similar to a POE injector.
POE---------------POE SLAVE ----LAN
…|-------POWER OUT → plugs into DC power port on router.
you can order through ecconet.net they are the only stockists of this type of device that I have found.
Hope that this helps
Hi winagain,
thanks for the suggestion.but i was not really clear about the part of how to implement the POE slave connector.please cab u be more detailed.Thanks again. and if there are any other ways to get around this problem pls let me in.
What kind of diagnostic work have you done to determine where the problem is? I can think of at least five different ways to have a POE powered router fail, most of them do not involve the router itself.
POE slave works by using power supply plugged into a POE injector the power runs through the CAT5 cable, and the cable plugs into the POE-SLAVE unit, this unit removes the power on the CAT5 and has a DC male jack which u use a short DC cable to then plug into the DC jack on the router or any other AP that does not support POE.
Basically the POE-SLAVE unit routes power away from the ethernet device, and has DC male jack where you can use a DC male-male cable one side plugs into the DC male on the POE-Slave and the other plugs into the router/AP/switch or any device that does not support POE
It’s a wonderfull invention, as you can get good quality AP’s etc that don’t normally support POE to work with POE, with a cheap POE slave. you can take a look at the pic that I attached on my previous post, shows how it connects.
I have attached a pic of how the POE-Slave can be implemented.
Very easy to provide power to devices that do not support poe.
If you properly calculate your loss on the cable for the specific voltage you are using, you can almoust make your own. If you use the MT bought poe passive injectors, than on the other end - at your board, you must put a power jack to the pins 4-5-7-8.
1-2-3-6 are for data. Don’t mess with them.
To simply put your own power, without power injector, use the same pins, 4.5.7.8 and put 2 double utp connectors at each end. In one you enter data, and the other has power applied to it; at the other end you get out your data lines, and get out a jack with the power you injected.