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According to Ubiquiti datasheet, the airFiber 5X maximum power is 12Watts, however, I am seeing this pegging 17.8Watts on a regular basis.
Any ideas?

UBNT provides an AVERAGE watts over time.

It peaks higher and lower than that value.

For instance a Rocket M5 says it uses 6 watts but it uses as low as 3-4 watts when receiving or idle and peaks at 12+ watts during heavy transmits

We are reporting the correct watts

Notice it spikes during transmits and dips during receive.

The AFX radios are HALF Duplex just like the Rocket M5 so you get dips and spikes

THe AF24 is FULL duplex so the watts useage is more uniform unless running in half duplex mode.

If you look at our 1 hour graph which is more of an average watts used it smooths out

That is interesting, thank you for that insight.
I was also reading that the AF5X uses 24V and 1A, and the switch is only offering 0.75A.
The AF5X is powering up, a station connected to it and data transfers through it without any issue. Is it safe to operate without the full 1A and is it possible to put more power to that port as we don't have any 48V devices?

ncsnetwork wrote:That is interesting, thank you for that insight.
I was also reading that the AF5X uses 24V and 1A, and the switch is only offering 0.75A.
The AF5X is powering up, a station connected to it and data transfers through it without any issue. Is it safe to operate without the full 1A and is it possible to put more power to that port as we don't have any 48V devices?

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