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(Yes, I'm working on labeling my cables). The hardest part I had in setting up the product was identifying the ethernet cable that went to the remote location. After that was taken care of, I plugged everything in and it worked.
to get it to be reliable I had to use both ends. says it will work with standard POE on Linksys WAP200 without the endpoint adapter, but it made the ethernet flaky.
Linksys makes a version of this unit ( WAPPOE12 ) - that is designed for 12 volt systems.
This will cause the device to operate outside its operating specifications, probably run hotter, and probably fail earlier. I'll be the second engineer to tell you not to use this product with any 12V equipment. Devices require some fixed amount of power to operate and when you supply 5V to a device that expects 12V, it's going to get the power, at the expense of drawing over twice as much current.
I guess the reviewer who is "the engineer with 25 years experience" was incorrect- experience does not count for actually doing it. It has been running now for 4 months with no problems. I have the WRT54G v.2 that uses a 12 volt power supply. I plugged this PoE in and it worked right way even thought it said 5v output.
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