Should it be possible to power the wAP AC through the POE port Eth. 10 on the RB3011?
I tried today to hookup the wAP AC to Eth. 10 on the RB3011 but not oven the power LED on the wAP AC is lit.
Am I doing is something wrong or is some configuration needed?
Powering the wAP AC through the included adapter and POE injector works.
I’vethis setup and its working fine. Have you tried another eth cable
Yes, I did. Hope the RB3011 isn’t broken.
Does the RB3011 need to be fully configured for this to work and have a working internet connection?
No, hooking it up should be plenty. Maybe check the ports power configuration but other then that, the wAP AC should just boot up when connected.
I connected my laptop to the RB3011 through cable and logged in with putty to the RB3011.
I then issued a POE monitor command two times.
The first time without the AP connected and the second time with the AP connected.
First time:
[admin@MikroTik] > interface ethernet poe monitor [find]
name: ether10
poe-out-status: waiting-for-load
Second time:
[admin@MikroTik] > interface ethernet poe monitor [find]
name: ether10
poe-out-status: powered-on
Does the powered on status indicate that the RB3011 sees the AP as powered on and that it doesn’t supply any power to the AP.
Should I connect to the AP while it is connected to the RB3011 and while it is powered through the power adapter and then power it down through the WEB UI to get it powered over POE?
Hmm, I think you are having problems with something being broken. All the things you described to try and much too complicated. We’re talking passive POE here, no negotiation, nothing, just power on the pins, put a device on there which accepts it and it just works (the device turns on), hook up a device which doesn’t support it and you fry that devices NIC. No intelligence whatsoever. 
Powered-on status should be correct. It sees something is drawing power.
Wait… You aren’t using the included POE injector while connecting it to the POE out port on the RB3011 correct? The included POE injector is only needed when you want to use DC barrel adapter power.
No, I just connect the AP to the RB3011 using a cat6 eth. cable. No passive injector. The AP does boot when using the injector and power adapter though. The POE on port 10 of the RB3011 might have some intelligence though. Otherwise it is RMA time I am afraid.
The Quick Guide of the RB3011 states: The Ether10 port suports PoE output, with auto detection feature. This means you can connect Laptops
and other non-PoE devices without damaging them. The PoE on Ether10 outputs approximately 2V below
input voltage, and supports up to 0.5A (So provided 24V PSU will provide 22V/0.5A output to the Ether10
PoE port).
So it seems to have some intelligence.
Any intelligence in Passive POE would be a new feature to me. But if using the same cable works at Gigabit with the injector and doesn’t work without using the connector in port 10, yeah, you might be looking at an RMA.
Last question, are you using a shielded or non-shielded cable? If shielded, try a non-shield one and see if that maybe helps.
Rather sh*t that is broken already. Wonder what caused it. Not even 5 months in service. Might go and look out for a not to expensive POE switch with more than 1 POE port. Any recommendation?
Any fix for this ? Or what have you done ?
I’m having the same problem on my RB3011UIA … I tried to power the Unify Cloudkey but absolutely nothing. Not in mode “auto” (says : waiting for load) and not in “forced on” etc.
That Unify Cloudkey states to support 802.3af PoE … why the wouldn’t it boot.
Tries the packaged 10cm very strong UTP-cords that comes with the Unify Cloudkey, but also a standard 30cm UTP-5e patch-cord.
…I get it … the Cloudkey supports 48V 802.3af PoE … not 12/18/24V with the adapter in the back of the unit …
Hello
How did you solves the issue between th rb3011 and the wApac.
Mine was working fine for one year now and yesterday i’ve the same issue as you.