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Re: D-Link Randomly Dropped Wireless Link

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Originally Posted by mtndurbin View Post
Our triage of this indicates that under heavy current draw, like when the
drive motors are running, the 12v power can drop to around 7 volts.

This low voltage condition causes temporary failure of the power converter
supplying power to the dlink. This results in the dlink performing a power on reset.

What I am now waiting for is the official fix for this.
What is your wiring like? It sounds like you wired directly to the PDB through a breaker. You should have wired it to the dedicated 12v radio output on the PDB. This will output 12v until the battery gets to 3.5v or so.
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