PoE+ not working on CR-N300 PTZ camera

[BCFischer]

Greetings! I am new to the forum and a new user of a Canon CR-N300 PTZ camera. I use it in a house of worship for live streaming.

I plan to power the device with PoE+ and have a PoE+ injector between my switch and the camera. The camera does not power on (the status light blinks green) with the just the LAN/PoE+ CAT6 cable attached. The camera powers up and does everything it is supposed to when I have the supplied power adapter attached. My eventual permanent mounting location would make the supplied power adapter difficult to use. PoE and NDI, allowing a one cable solution, was a big part of my camera selection.

Is there anything that I need to do with the camera in setup or in the settings to allow it to be powered by PoE+?

Take care and stay safe,

Brian

[shadowsports]

Greetings,

According to the website, the PoE+ switch or injector must meet the following requirements:

PoE+ Input: Approx. 16.2 W* max. (body only)
DC Input: Approx. 15.0 W max. (body only)
*Class 4 (25.5 W required) for power supply devices

Something like this with a run of 300 ft or less should work.

[rod_z]

Were you ever able to resolve this issue? I am having the same problem.

Thanks!

[BCFischer]

Hey Rod_Z!

My problem ended up being pretty pedestrian. The labeling on my POE injectors was vague. The ones I received did not pass the correct wattage for the devices - enough to light up some lights, but not produce an image or pass a control command.

I did have an issue with some of my ethernet cables (which I made myself) as well - there are a couple of different wiring configurations for ethernet, T-568A and T-568B. I was using some old patch cables (some that were used for telecom in their prior application) in the array that mixed stuff up - once I made sure that everything was T-568A and all 8 wires were used, everything worked as it should. I am running one camera with a run of about 30 ft and one with a run of about 180 ft, with content, control, and current all running across the one cable. I am using Cat6a cables and trying to build my infrastructure up to 8K capability.

Brian

[shadowsports]

rian,

Glad to hear you figured it out.  As nice as making your own cables is, one faulty crimp can send you down a rabbit hole looking for connectivity issues that wouldn't otherwise exist.  With PoE+, power matters as you discovered.  

Good work solving it.