Hi @DanL,

Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you.  But I was curious how you plan to do this.  I took a quick look for battery to PoE injectors, but didn't find any.

Are you going to:

1) DC FLA, AGM, or LiPo battery pack

2) Solar Charge Controller

3) DC to AC Inverter

4) AC to PoE Injector

If  so, you're going to have a lot of conversion losses.  But if it is sunny where you live, you might just get away with a deep cycle marine battery, a small solar 12V charger, and a small inverter.  Still, I wouldn't want to have to replicate that setup for each AP.

FYI, I belong to this Solar Panel Chat forum which is great, you should check it out.  I have a 12.2kW Grid Tied PV Array at my home.  91.2% of my consumption last year was offset by my solar production.

www.solarpaneltalk.com

-Jonathan

@JSchnee21 My conclusion after a bunch or research and experimentation is that there is no "perfect" way to install an EAP225 Outdoor with solar power only.

I have one installed powered by my "main" solar system, where I also have my cellular modem, (for backhaul) and one end of the aftermentioned CPE-210 link.  At that end, I have 400 watts of solar panels, a 40 amp MPPT charge controller, and 270 amp hours of 12 volt LiFePO4 battery.  I use all of that to power a small inverter, which in turn powers an 8 port PoE switch, which in turn powers all of the other devices (the CPE-210 through an active to passive PoE converter).

At the remote site where the other CPE-210 is, I have 100 watts of solar panels, a 10 amp MPPT charge controller, 24 amp hours of LiFePO4 battery (I am currently using 2 Talentcell AF120A1's), and I use a direct 12 volt to 24 volt passive PoE injector to power the CPE-210 (Tycon Power Systems TPDCDC-1224, available on Amazon) and a small inverter to power the factory injector for the EAP-225 (right now.  I know that is inefficient, and I may change to another Tycon).  All of the electronics and batteries are mounted in a BUD steel NEMA box.

But now that I have all of that working, thanks to you guys, I need to deploy another 5-6 EAP-225's.  And I want the cleanest possible installation for each.  I am using a nifty little 30 amp solar panel with built in MPPT charge controller to trickle charge batteries for other applications (like the pump on my diesel tank, and a gate opener), and I would love to use the same one for these AP installations.  Coupled with the little 12 AH 12 volt LiFePO4 batteries that I am using elsewhere, and that same Tycon injector, I think I will be set.  But if the thing really draws 10.5 amps continuous, then that little panel won't be enough to keep the batteries charged during a storm in the winter.  Thus my question.  I think they really draw more like 300 or 400 mA at 12 volts at least most of the time...