If you have enough space you can install an automatic transfer switch. This will allow single power input devices to have redundant power inputs without modifying any hardware. APC and other manufactures make them. They are about $700 and are manageable.

Unfortunately that is beyond our budget for a CPE install.

Service stops somewhere.. next we need to guarantee his PC always works!

Service stops somewhere.. next we need to guarantee his PC always works!

通常ISP / NSP不供应PCs

(but they do supply the service delivery hardware)

For ~$5 worth of knick knacks its worth avoiding a late night callout.

Service stops somewhere.. next we need to guarantee his PC always works!

通常ISP / NSP不供应PCs

(but they do supply the service delivery hardware)

For ~$5 worth of knick knacks its worth avoiding a late night callout.

Well, don't know. We suffer relative regular short power cuts in our area and the voltage can fluctuate 10-15% easy in the country side. I guess some 40% of all my adapter lost life because of this over the years. In the beginning we replaced them for free, because yeah, its our antenna that needs the power for the adapter supplied by us.
But this became so annoying and costly (some clients needed new adapter every two months!) we now charge them the costs after the first free replacement and we only come out during office hours to replace them.
We've had occasions that due a lightning strike on the electricity grid the power just dropped for a split second to come back in a spike to ruin several adapters of our clients at once!

We supply the service, but end user has to supply his own stable power. If not we can't bear the costs for that.
The $5 adapters are the ones to go first anyway so we decided to buy a little higher quality. So together with time spend I would say a call out to replace an adapter would cost me € 25,- each time, almost the monthly subscription fee!

Heavy duty (=heavy paying) clients might need a different approach, but for the ordinary household this is a reasonable approach I think.

newest RouterBOARD models support both PoE and Jack powering at the same time. When one of them will fail, other will continue to power the device. If the voltages will be different, it will use the higher one, and will switch to the other one when that one is removed.

Basically redundant power.

one of our MFM partners offers a nice solution for these needs:
http://www.restlesspowerbox.com/

Thats what a UPS is for

one of our MFM partners offers a nice solution for these needs:
http://www.restlesspowerbox.com/

Hi all,

Are there any plans to produce a RouterBOARD with redundant power inputs?

Alternatively, is there a strategy others are using for a power supply with built in redundancy.

Just had a RB fall over at a very unfortunate time in the night due to power supply failure.

one of our MFM partners offers a nice solution for these needs:
http://www.restlesspowerbox.com/

Great untill the PoE pop's on the board
Which board's can handle dual input? All of the RB4xx series?

newest RouterBOARD models support both PoE and Jack powering at the same time. When one of them will fail, other will continue to power the device. If the voltages will be different, it will use the higher one, and will switch to the other one when that one is removed.

Basically redundant power.

In case anyone is interested, one of the guys here with some electronics skills made a dual input adapter using a diode.

I can post more details when we finish it.

newest RouterBOARD models support both PoE and Jack powering at the same time. When one of them will fail, other will continue to power the device. If the voltages will be different, it will use the higher one, and will switch to the other one when that one is removed.

Basically redundant power.