My routerboard 711 shorts out my poe power device(s) both 24 volts.8 ma when I was tampering with the Bandwidth signals. The Card is 75 foot on a tower, not good.
Why is the routerboard shorting my poe’s causing them to blink leds even go out. I dunno what to do. total ethernet chord to tower top is 100 ft.
I need help, I dont know if I should buy Bigger poe and if so what about my switch poe that already powers the board, can I use the same poe i’m using now along with a bigger poe plugged directly into the card? confused. Also, will this even fix my problem? why did the card consume too much power when I changed the bandwidth?
The cable is properly connected the PO E Cheese I have two of those and they both work another router bored just fine. The problem occurred when I change the band with the board was working perfectly. I could see different access points popping up as I would change the bandwidth on some channels I had different SSID standing out on other band widths. I’m assuming I was changing the frequency of the antenna here and I turn the power up is what I’m thinking. I am under the impression that the cable cannot carry the current for that bandwidth. The board was working perfectly before and I am almost certain if I bring the board and reset it the problem will go away I just do not know why it is doing this. I am most certainly I need be and I am talking to my phone so please look over any misspelled words.
I’m very sorry for the above post being misspelled so bad. My phone had cancer dots on it and was going out, the screen was so small and voice to text malfunctions. Today i’m on a laptop.
PROBLEM SOLVED SOMEWHAT. I climbed the 80’ tower and brought the box down, long story short a different cat5 cable allowed me to Reset the board although the Prior Cat 5 refused to let me do a factory reset! With the prior cat5 the lights would beep in 2 second intervals and made a static sound as if the air become a capacitor, you could hear frequency inside the chips. I applied a short cat5 and was allowed to do a reset.
Now I am back to using the Prior cat5 the problem accured with. I assume a faulty connection gained contact, I am still puzzled. It happened when I changed the Channel Bandwidth. I hope this helped someone.
I have given it some thought of putting a Speaker-wire and solenoid to the reset button so I don’t have to clime the tower next time. Any clever ideals on that part? you could also run speaker wire from the board down to the ground and switch together at bottom of tower next failure but would that wire create unwanted static? possible, I may look into installing a micro solenoid in the box and running a wire from that solenoid to the ground in case this ever happens again.