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First off, I don't know why I bother with security cams when I have a GSD. Rumor has it that there was supposed to be a package delivered today from Netonix, but if I was the delivery guy with a dog coming at me like this, I'd put her in reverse and beat a hasty retreat.

Anyway... the wife will have to go to the post office after work to pick it up. News at 11.

I was thinking about doing an "unboxing" video but then I realized this is an engineering sample so it didn't have a fancy box. Also Dave had mounted it inside a Tycon ENC-SW-8x5 outdoor weatherproof PoE switch enclosure for me. Please note the the WS-6-MINI will not include the enclosure.

Anyway without further ado, here is the unboxed MINI. Tomorrow I will install it and provide more pics and details.

Very Jealous!

I will be ordering some of those!

I couldn't wait until tomorrow and so just had to plug it in to test it. I connected it to Port 1 on my WS24 set to 48VH. Note that it is drawing less than 8W and that is with it powering an airCam at 2W.

lligetfa wrote:I couldn't wait until tomorrow and so just had to plug it in to test it. I connected it to Port 1 on my WS24 set to 48VH. Note that it is drawing less than 8W and that is with it powering an airCam at 2W.

I have some micro solar sites that have just 1 48v cam and a NanoBridge. The POE bricks are bridged. With this I could ditch one DC-DC converter, the poe bricks, add another cam and do remote monitoring.

Very excited!

Looks very good - will be watching to see how this gets on. I would be looking to power from an HP2620-24-PoE, which I think outputs 17w per port max. Would that power this device, or it needs the PoE+ standard?

You would definitely need the high power 48VDC. I do not think this device will be supported as a client on an active (802.11at) switch.

alex_cambui wrote:Looks very good - will be watching to see how this gets on. I would be looking to power from an HP2620-24-PoE, which I think outputs 17w per port max. Would that power this device, or it needs the PoE+ standard?

You can not power this switch with 17 watts and then expect to power other devices?
Plus unless the HP2620 does PASSIVE POE as our WS-6-MINI is not 802.3af it would not work anyway?

There are no other switches that I know of on the market that could power this switch with enough power to do much else as far as powering other devices?
You either need to power it with a WISP Switch, use a 1.2A to 2A POE Brick like an old airFIBER power adapter, or power it with a barrel connector power adapter.

Correct. The MINI needs 8-wire passive PoE AKA 48VH or the AirFiber compatible PoE brick. Chris was supposed to send me one of his surplus AF PoE bricks but he must have forgot. I don't really need it since I have the WS24 to power it from but I wanted to model a use case in this story. Oh well... just use your imagination.

I guess I should fill in a bit of the back story on this install.

Many years ago I needed to bury 300 feet of CAT5e to reach from my house out to the public road allowance in order to get connected to a WISP tower running Tranzeo. Fast forward years later I abandoned that line and switched to Canopy 5.7 that I could get from my rooftop.

I have been alpha and beta testing Ubiquiti airCams for a few years and since the wife hates cameras and wires, it has always been a challenge to find locations to put the cams. I remembered the buried CAT5 wire and so I pulled up the tail end of it and rerouted it over to my roundtop fabric shelter. There is no electricity out there so at the time I set up just one airCam.

We park our vehicles near the roundtop and so every Winter, I string a heavy duty 200 foot extension cord across the lawn over to the roundtop from where I branch several cords for block heaters, lights, and more recently, to power a TS8-Pro. I put the TS8 in the roundtop when I needed to have both 24V and 48V for the newer UVC and UVC Pro.

Every Spring when the snow melts, I have to roll up the long extension cord and lose my power source to the TS8 so would also have to cut back to just a single camera. I needed a way to get both 24V and 48V out there. Enter the WS-6-MINI!