Ubiquiti PBE-M5-400 Installation Guide

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HighIntegrated airMAX®

Model: PBE

Introduction

Thank you for purchasing the Ubiquiti Networks® PowerBeam™. This Quick Start Guide is designed to guide you through installation and also includes warranty terms.

If you want to add a radome to enclose the Dish Reflector,

Ubiquiti Networks offers the PowerBeam Radome, 400 mm, model PBE-RAD-400 as an optional accessory. Product details are available on our website at www.ubnt.com/airmax

Package Contents

Dish Reflector	PBE-M5-400		Rear Housing
	Antenna Feed*
20
010
10
Dish Bracket	Pole Clamp	U-Bolt	Flange Nuts
			(M8, Qty. 2)

Gigabit PoE (24V, 0.5A)	Power Cord	Quick Start Guide
with Mounting Bracket

*The PBE-M5-400 Antenna Feed has a thin gray ring around the center of the cap to differentiate it from the PBE-M5-300 Antenna Feed.

TERMS OF USE: Ubiquiti radio devices must be professionally installed. Shielded Ethernet cable and earth grounding must be used as conditions of product warranty. TOUGHCable™ is designed for outdoor installations. It is the customer’s responsibility to follow local country regulations, including operation within legal frequency channels, output power, and Dynamic

Frequency Selection (DFS) requirements.

Hardware Overview

Bottom View

Antenna Feed

Technology

Ethernet Port

Reset Button

Release Button

Dish

Reflector

Dish Bracket

Alignment Pins

Rear Housing

Release

Button Slot

Cable Door

Reset Button To reset to factory defaults, press and hold the

Reset button for more than 10 seconds while the PowerBeam is already powered on. Alternatively, the PowerBeam may be reset remotely via a Reset button located on the bottom of the

Gigabit PoE adapter.

Release Button After you assemble the PowerBeam, check the Release button; it should be fully engaged in the Release Button Slot of the Rear Housing. This ensures that the Antenna Feed is locked into place. If you need to remove the Antenna Feed, you must depress the Release button first.

LEDs

Signal In airOS, you can modify the wireless signal strength threshold values for each LED on the

Advanced tab under Signal LED Thresholds. The default values are shown below:

LED will light green when the wireless signal strength is above -65 dBm.

LED will light green when the wireless signal strength is above -73 dBm.

LED will light amber when the wireless signal strength is above -80 dBm.

LED will light red when the wireless signal strength is above -94 dBm.

Ethernet The Ethernet LED will light steady green when an active Ethernet connection is made and flash when there is activity.

Power The Power LED will light green when the device is connected to a power source.

Application Examples

The PowerBeam mounted outdoors with the Dish Reflector installed provides directional outdoor coverage (gain is reflector dependent).

The PowerBeam mounted outdoors without the Dish Reflector installed provides outdoor-to-indoor coverage using the 3 dBi

Antenna Feed only.

Installation Requirements

•13 mm wrench

•Shielded Category 5 (or above) cabling should be used for all wired Ethernet connections and should be grounded through the AC ground of the PoE.

We recommend that you protect your networks from the most brutal environments and devastating ESD attacks with industrial grade shielded Ethernet cable from Ubiquiti Networks. For more details, visit www.ubnt.com/toughcable

Installation

1.Align and insert the tabs of the Dish Bracket into the slots of the Dish Reflector. Rotate the Dish Bracket counter clockwise until the tabs lock into place.