For anyone interested in some real life power consumption figures, in my home office environment, I find that the AP6 consumes around 4.8 watts on average. (enabled 2.4ghz- 20mhz, 5ghz active 40 MHz)
The AP6PRO hovers between 7.4 to 10 watts. (enabled 2.4g - 20GHz, 5Ghz - 80 MHz)
Luckily nowhere near the 20 and 25 watts specified in the specs which I assume is at full load worst case.
This is as reported by the Alta Labs 8 port switch.
Thanks for the real-world data! The provided specs are obviously worst case, assuming the AP is fully transmitting at the moment, but it’s not likely to hit those numbers.
Just to add some data for AP6 Pro
I run my AP6 Pro at EU power levels 2.4Ghz 20Mhz 20 dBm, 5 GHz 80Mhz 23dBm and have around 20 devices connected with a mix of 2.4 and 5Ghz (with around 1%-2% idle usage for both bands).
When my d-link poe switch (not poe+) show around 6.4W (with regular spikes to 7-7.4W) idle and usually around ~11.4w when benchmarking 5Ghz using iperf3 or similar (i’ve seen 13W once).
When coupled with poe+ injector (TP-160S) the average draw is ~9W (with regular 10W spikes), I don’t remember the max measurement but it was around poe (class 3) levels.