Hello,
In advance thanks for the help. I want to switch my electrical connection to solar connection and well, I mostly use Force 200 antennas.
The query is whether using the following product:
You could connect a 12v battery directly to the Force 200.
That MikroTik adapter is totally passive - is just a cable - so itâll POE out exactly what you put into it. So, if your solar batteries are in 24v configuration, the batteries should range from 21.2v to 29.6 volts (depending on their state of charge) and the Force 200 and the MikroTik POE cable should be happy with that.
But and in terms of cable pins, would the distribution be fine? What if I do the test with a 12v or 24v battery but the distribution of the cable pins is wrong? Could it go bad or just not turn on?
The Cambium ePMP Subscriber Modules, and the MikroTik subscriber modules both use âpassive POEâ, with the voltage going down pings 4/5 & 7/8 and while the ethernet data goes down 1,2,3,6
The only trick is that all MikroTik use 4/5 as + and 7/8 as -, while some Cambium radios use a reversed voltages. MOST Cambium ePMP radios are âvoltage agnosticâ, meaning you can send + down 4/5 and - down 7/8, OR you can do the reverse and send - down 4/5 and + down 7/8, and for most of the ePMP SMs they will detect and use either way.
ALSO - the ePMPâs should not be harmed (in my experience) by sending voltage the wrong direction, they simply wonât turn on.
SO - if this was me, what Iâd do is to connect the batteries in 24 volt configurations (since thatâll be more efficient for your solar charger anyway) and then fully charged 24 volt batteries should be 12.6 volts each, so 25.2 volts in â24 volt configurationâ. Then Iâd plug that into the MikroTik POE Injector (or any POE injector) and Iâd put âpositiveâ on the center of the barrel, which should be down the 4/5 pair of wires, and Iâd put negative on the âshieldâ of the barrel connector, which should go down the 7/8 pair of wires.
I would expect that will work fine for you with a Force200 - since the Force200 (both 2.4ghz and 5ghz versions) work as power agnostic +/- or -/+ for us. They are also happy with 24v or 30v or a wide range, so your solar batteries will range through the day/night from ~22 volts to ~29 volts, and the Force200 should be happy with that.
DISCLAIMER: I full expect that you can put 12v or 24v, either âforward polarityâ or âreverse polarityâ and I expect itâll all be OK. As long as you donât put in more than 30v, which shouldnât happen with batteries in a 24v configuration with a 24v solar charge controller - and the charge points set correctly. However, YOUR MILEAGE MAY VARY.
When you refer to mileage you mean the useful life, right?
I will buy a Mikrotik powerbox pro MikroTik Routers and Wireless - Products: PowerBox Pro and I will try to connect 3 force 200 with a 100 AH battery in 12v to see how it works and then I will try with a 2 12V batteries each of 100 AH, I will tell you how it went.
Itâs just something I say when I mean, âThis may or may not work the same for you⊠donât blame me!â. So, I just meant that running two 12v batteries connected in a 24v configuration should be safe - but, âyour mileage may varyâ (meaning, it works for me, but donât blame me if something blows up for you!).
Also, for us,where we have Solar, we have 12 or 16 batteries, 100 AH each â so we run battery banks of 1,200 AH to 1,600 AH.
We dont use microtik but we do have all dc sites and the only thing you have to worry about is placing a small fuse between the passive poe injector and the battery/charge controller.
We even have voltage controlled relays that ensure at our specified low battery voltage the radio power is cut rather then run the batteries down to far and hurt them.
We are using two 40AH tractor batteries in series for 24v and have no problem keeping a tower with two ptp and 4 ptmp up for 30hrs. On sites that we figure need more or the location of the site is inconvenient to get to, we simply parallel more battery sets in with a reverse current diode (plan for at least 40A) on each battery set. This works very well and since most good solar panels are nominally 24v (28 to 32v-oc) so a simply charge controller and appropriate fusing is all thats needed.
We even figured out how to convert our cisco switches to use battery power without needing an inverter.
Hola,
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