I've been thinking about picking up a flx4 to have some fun with. Zero experience.
Took a chance and checked local marketplace. There's a ddjsx3 that I could likely pick up for less than a new flx4.
Thoughts? I'm on the fence, especially having no experience with either.
Short version: Do I manually set POE output for this camera? If so, is there any danger to setting it higher?
We just installed a demo camera from Verkada yesterday. It's a pretty slick unit, CH63-E. It's got 4 cameras in it, running off of 1 ethernet cable. The camera documentation says it requires 802.3at PoE+.
After plugging the camera in, the camera kept rebooting and the switch logs said "CONTROLLER_PORT_ERR: Controller port error, Interface Tw1/0/28: Power Controller reports power Imax error detected". Cabling is good, so, it appears the camera/switch are not negotiating a power level.
The camera documentation does say "Power sources for Verkada cameras must conform to IEEE 802.3 standards. Devices will not negotiate properly on UPOE or other proprietary PoE methods, regardless of whether those methods can deliver sufficient wattage."
Verkada support has not been helpful. They send me a link to POE requirements and basically said "figure it out".
I set the interface to 30W with the command "power inline static max 30000" which got the camera up and running. We aimed the cameras and buttoned it up, video is streaming fine. The documentation says the camera can draw as little at 19W and as much as 51W in "extended temperature range". Do you think there is any danger in setting the power output to 51000? It's never been quite clear to me what this interface setting actually does.
I suppose if I burn up the camera, it's only a demo unit lol.