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Notes / Cheap PoE + APs

Editorial, 22 Aug 2026. Specs from maker pages and recent street reports. We have not burned these units in. Affiliate tags are not live.

One injector, two injectors, or a 4-port PoE+ switch

Count watts and ports. This is not the “buy the 5-port brick” essay. That one already exists.

Cheap PoE for two APs already crowned TL-SG1005P. This post is the injector math. A 15.4 W af injector feeds EAP613 (10.9 W), U7 Lite (~13 W), Instant On AP21/AP22, or GWN7660 (9 W). It does not feed EAP653 (15.5 W, 802.3at). One at-class puck needs a 30 W injector or a switch port that actually does at.

Two af APs fit one 64 W fanless 4-PoE+ switch. Two injectors plus a non-PoE switch is more wall warts and the same money as the switch once you buy the second brick. UniFi’s own 15 W injector is $8 if you already live there.

The short list

BoxWhat it isStreet, 22 Aug 2026Buy if
TP-Link TL-POE150S802.3af injector, 15.4 W.Amazon $17.99 (B001PS9E5I).One af AP. Not EAP653.
TP-Link TL-POE160S802.3at injector, 30 W.Amazon $22.99 (B08LZZRX5N).One at AP (EAP653, EAP670, EAP723, Cudy AP3000).
UniFi U-PoE 15W (U-POE-AF)48 V / 0.32 A. 15 W.$8 UI store.One U7 Lite off a non-PoE switch.
TP-Link TL-SG108PE8× 1G, 4× PoE+ / 64 W, fanless, smart managed.Amazon $51.49–$60.85 (B01BW0AD1W). List $69.99.Two APs now, maybe a camera. No 2.5G. Quiet closet.

If the APs are 2.5G (U7 Lite, Cudy AP3000, EAP670), the injector still works — the uplink is only as fast as the injector’s gigabit jack. For 2.5G end to end you want 8-port 2.5G PoE. Match class in af / at / bt. Do not feed any of these from a 24 V passive brick.

Skip

Skip a second 150S when the next AP is at-class. Skip SG2210MP for two APs — 150 W and a fan you will hear; fan note. Skip treating two $18 injectors as cheaper than a $52 fanless switch if you already know camera three is coming.

Sources

Amazon TL-POE150S. Amazon TL-POE160S. UI U-PoE-AF. Amazon TL-SG108PE.

Also in this lane

af, at, bt: match the AP class before you buy the switchBudget the switch total, not eight ports times 30 W. 24 V passive will not feed a U7 Lite — and 48 V passive is not the same brickMix the three “passive” strings and you brick a port. SG2210MP’s fan is why the closet should buy SG2210XMP-M2 or SG108PEBuy the fanless SKU. Do not mod the fan.