Ruckus R550 - not enough power

[bdillard]

Hello,

I have a lot of R550's getting powers from different manufacturer switches but they all seem to have the same warning about not getting enough power.   These are running the current firmware -R550_200.12.10.105.129.    According to the website they only require 802.3at PoE+   Max power consumption PoE+ : 18.71W.   I currently have the AP plugged into a switch with a 240 watt power supply for 8 ports.  The specs on it are minimum of 19.39 W per port.   I only have 2 ports plugged in on the switch.    I have another conneted to a 30watt poe injector.  They both have the same indicator -

According to Netgears website the 8 ports are PoE+
802.3at
Ports.

My POE injector is rated at 30w - is there a typo on the website for the R550?   Do they a require 60watts?

[user541690]

Hi Vineet,

I have connected to the master using SSH as follows

ssh -oHostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa admin@192.168.1.200

ran the commands and now have the Master in AT power mode.

But I cannot connect to the slaves AP's via their IP addressees, they just time out...

Is there a different connection method for the slaves?

Any help greatly appreciated.

[bdillard]

Thanks - I've got 5 different networks with the same issue - different POE switches.   I'm thinking that sensor/auto doesn't work automatically.

[ireshl]

Hi Vineet,

We have some R550 access point. According to the datasheet its only required power is 18.5W. When i plug that into the Cisco switch and run the power inline command its displaying 28.5W consumption. Actually why is that ?

[bdillard]

I think it is like when game specs say only requires 8Gigs of memory and a 8gig video card and you play it and it doesn't look like the demo and that's because they have it playing on 32GB of memory and a 16gig video card with RTX.     I think if you want the full wifi6 experience you want 30watts.