Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:23 Post subject: Hacking tp-link POE
Hello,
I have just purchased a tp-link TL-WA901ND (http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wa901nd) and was pretty miffed to discover that PoE was not 802.3af compliant, as the reason for buying it was to use with my poe switch.
using the provided PoE injector it powers up.
I took the injector apart and it looks like pin 4 + 5 are +ve (the pin in the middle of the power connector) and 7 + 8 are -ve. power plug is 12v 1A
Is it possible for me to hack my access point to work in active
Note that Active PoE means using the same line as data, so you really want to do it? The difference between active PoE and passive PoE will be the availability of negotiate power requirements among equipments. If you want to go ahead (because I think your switch doesn´t power up your router), you have to add some resistance between pins to fool the switch at power up and then remove it. Something like the attached picture: _________________ If you want support, please read first the announcements and forum rules.
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Not entirely true either. The 901ND uses a 12V Power-Supply, while 802.3af uses 40V. So there is, in fact, no way to supply the AP with power from a PoE switch.