wireless digest, Vol 1 #764 - 8 msgs

[stephen at winsoft.net.au]

My Wap11 was same deal, 5V on about 15M of cat5 would not run, so I run 12V to the unit
and use the good old $1.20  regulator (7805) to bring it back to 5V, works great. Power is
supplied from my PC power supply :)

> Finally, I came to the same conclusion.  My short run of Cat5 ended up being
> flakey for 5v power.  I put a power supply in the box with the AP, and ran
> 12volts to it......
>
> My external AP box is now fed 5v by a couple of huge (well, 1.8 sq mm)
> conductors.
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