robpur
Getting comfortable
To put a cap on my PoE issue I examined the pigtail and didn't find any deficiencies. Therefore I believe that the issue is with the PoE circuitry in the camera. That would explain why data passes on the appropriate pins but power on those pins doesn't work. It's likely that this is a self inflected wound. I dug through a pile of cables that I used while upgrading the camera and testing it in a new location, and I found a cable that I'm sure I used which is wired in a crossover configuration. My best guess is that using the crossover cable blew out the camera's ability to use mode A. I would have known better than to use a crossover cable when working with PoE, but I didn't examine the cable close enough before hooking it up. Moral of the story is, pay close attention to the wiring configuration of your cables when working with PoE.
If I find myself with enough time, and bored enough, then I may trace out the circuitry on the PC board to see if I can resolve the issue, but for now my external PoE mode B injector works fine. I've read about others with cameras that no longer work with PoE but they work fine when supplying power via the coax power connector, so I wonder how many of those cameras have just lost the ability to function in PoE mode A. Perhaps they could still be successfully powered with a PoE mode B injector.
If I find myself with enough time, and bored enough, then I may trace out the circuitry on the PC board to see if I can resolve the issue, but for now my external PoE mode B injector works fine. I've read about others with cameras that no longer work with PoE but they work fine when supplying power via the coax power connector, so I wonder how many of those cameras have just lost the ability to function in PoE mode A. Perhaps they could still be successfully powered with a PoE mode B injector.