I’m working on deploying an AP One AC Mini in a mobile environment along with a MAX BR1 router. The AP has a 12V input for power. The BR1 is labeled as being able to handle 10-30 volts on the DC input. My question is whether the AP can also handle a wider range of DC input. In the mobile environment, 12 volts really means anything from 10.5 to 14.5 typically, as various loads are on the batteries and alternators or charge controllers are topping off those batteries. Before installing the AP, it’d be useful to know whether it has on-board power regulation to handle the wider range of DC input, or if it requires tightly-controlled 12V.
Ideally, I’d like to wire power to the BR1, then from the terminal block of the BR1 to the AP One AC Mini for a clean installation.
Possible to let us know whether do you require built-in WIFI AP feature for the BR1 ? If WIFI AP doesn’t require for BR1 you should go for BR1 ENT model that support PoE Power output.
Batteries –> DC 12V-48V 2A –> DC terminal –> BR1 Ent –> PoE 802.3af –> APs (AP One AC Mini)
I am using Wifi-as-WAN in addition to AP, thus the two units. Can you or someone decipher the terminal block power markings? They’re not documented anywhere. They are “- I/P O/P +”. Since your marketing documentation so prominently talks about the terminal block, I was surprised to not find any mention of it in the manual.
And please do answer what the DC input tolerances are for the AP One AC Mini. Your hardware engineering folks surely will know whether they included a voltage regulator circuit within the power design.
Thank you for your reply. This doesn’t answer my question though. I know we can use an external regulator to reduce the voltage to 12V but that might not be necessary since the internal regulator may have a wide enough range and a Peplink engineer would know the exact specs. The above mentioned range of 10.5 to 14.5 was suggested by the OP and it’s unlikely to be exactly that so I am looking for confirmation of a safe maximum or whether 16.8V is within tolerance.
Yes, but the wording is not very clear. The response from Peplink could simply mean that 10.5v to 14.5v is within tolerance but may not be the full range. 10.5 to 14.5 was just a suggestion by the OP as a typical range for 12V input. I’m just looking for confirmation.
If anybody else is looking for this information. I just heard back from Peplink support and they said “It should work up to this voltage” but I should ensure it definitely doesn’t go higher than that which probably means it’s close to the limit. I just tried with a fully charged battery and verified voltage of 16.8 and it appears to work fine.
