Airfiber 24 Using 250 watts of power?

[terry@mid-states.net]

i dont think this is normal for a airfiber 24 to use 225 watts on. i have had this installed for a year and noticed today that the power is going crazy. i rebooted the switch and the air fiber but it came right back after reboot

[lligetfa]

Image would not display so I removed it.

Most likely you have a damaged current sensor.

[sirhc]

Current sensors usually get damaged from poor or ineffective electrical service ground and the service grounds not being bonded to the tower grounds then when there is a ground surge on the service and the service rpds resistance goes up the ground current wants to get to the tower grounds and if the 2 ground potentials are not binded the Ethernet cable is that bond.

Ground current can come from bad electric motors or other devices and even from the electric service providers as well as ground strikes in the area as you get 2 hit, 1 neutral, and 1 ground from your service provider and all grounds in an area are bonded together so a neighbors bad large electrical motor and their poor ground and your poor ground and your good tower grounds......well you get the point.

RMA the switch for repair and add a couple new service rods and make sure they are all bonded to the tower ground rods.

Electrical and Ethernet surge protectors are useless against ground current.