Now if we could get the manufacturers to be less secretive about their POE 
schemes.  They mostly want you to use their POE device and don’t want to 
document the pinouts or explain if it matters which side is referenced to 
ground.

 

Mostly I find that using a Cat6-POE-APC with the jumpers as set at the factory 
and + and – hooked up per the markings works.  Which is basically 802.3at.  It 
works with the – side grounded, I suspect it would also work with the + side 
grounded, or neither.  I was hesitant to use this on a PTP820 but it works 
fine.  I don’t know why they make their POE scheme sound so mysterious.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Josh Baird
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 8:44 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] -48 noob questions (mikrotik)

 

Yep - great explanation!

 

On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM Chuck McCown <ch...@wbmfg.com 
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote:

You have a power supply, say a 6 volt car battery.  You connect a pair of 
headlights to it with two wires. All is well.  

 

Now you start building cars.  And you are going to wire up the headlights.  
Someone points out that you can save some money on wiring by using the car 
chassis instead if one of the wires.

 

You decide to run the positive connection from the battery to the headlights 
with wire and return the current via the car’s chassis.  

 

Now you have turned a 6 volt electrical system into a +6 volt system.  If you 
reverse the battery and connect the + side to the chassis and run the wire from 
the negative post to the headlights , it will still work fine.  The headlights 
don’t care.  Now you have a -6 volt electrical system. 

 

 The headlights don’t care but the radio does.  Most radios expect the chassis 
to be negative and their power wire to be positive.  You can “float” the radio 
by mounting it on an insulator and connecting its power wire to the car’s 
chases and the chassis of the radio to the negative wire going to the battery.  
A bit dangerous but I have had to do this at times.

 

Oh, and the car is an early VW.

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On Sep 20, 2020, at 2:19 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com 
<mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote:



I still cant comprehend any of this. I'm just dumb when it comes to it 

 

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 2:51 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > wrote:

Yes.

 

From: TJ Trout 

Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 1:48 PM

To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] -48 noob questions (mikrotik)

 

It's just a simple 48 to 12v converter to feed the mikrotik. I tested with a 
ict +48 supply and the 12v comes out fine, I'm 99% sure it will work on the 
wood bench, and about 90% sure it will work in a rack.  

 

If it was true -48 I would assume the + terminal would be bonded with chassis 
ground?

 

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 12:45 PM TJ Trout <t...@voltbb.com 
<mailto:t...@voltbb.com> > wrote:

I think some of my devices have the chassis ground bonded with the negative 
input terminals, I discovered this
because I am running a telecom rectifier shelf designed for -48 on a +48 system 
because it's floating, but this
causes the + output to not be fused, so I practiced arc welding once.

Strange, didn't know the 1100 had dc input, but it looks floating though (per 
specs -48, 12-57 V)




 

On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:40 PM <ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> > 
wrote:

I don’t think I have ever seen a true +48 load.  

 

From: Ken Hohhof 

Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 1:29 PM

To: 'AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group' 

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] -48 noob questions (mikrotik)

 

Different situation, but I have several sites with 1100ahx4 powered with +48, 
even though Mikrotik says they take -48.  I suspect you will find the same to 
be true on the CCR.

 

Connect the – terminal to ground and the + terminal to +48, obviously you don’t 
want to apply reverse polarity by trying to connect +48 to the -48 terminal.

 

I have some ccr1009 and ccr1036 but they are all AC powered, and I have no 
ccr1072, so I can’t answer your exact question.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > On Behalf 
Of TJ Trout
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2020 2:19 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com <mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Subject: [AFMUG] -48 noob questions (mikrotik)

 

So I have a handful of ccr1072's that I want to run on our +48v plant, mikrotik 
sells a '-48v telecom' power supply and they insist it's not compatible with 
+48v. I ordered one for testing and both +/- input terminals have no reference 
to chassis ground. I went ahead and applied +48v and the power supply fired up 
(no smoke) and when measuring from chassis ground to the input terminals I see 
no difference in potential.

 

Before I shove this into a $3,000 router I wanted to see what I may be missing 
here?


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