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  • Have you considered just using POE injectors as and when you need them?

    I'm learning that my requirements (rackmount POE withbpassive cooling) is asking for the moon on a stick.

    Or the Toughswitch ERP 16

  • I am rapidly considering it more and more...

    Oh yeah, I forgot my requirement for passive cooling due to the fact it will basically live in a bedroom cupboard :)

    I'm only actually using one thing powered by PoE at the moment (Unifi access point). I do plan to add another in due course but it's the sheer number of mains sockets required otherwise!

    Setup without PoE would eventually be:

    1. Openreach modem
    2. Unifi USG
    3. Switch (TBC)
    4. Hue bridge
    5. Tado bridge
    6. DECT/VOIP base station
    7. Raspberry Pi running home assistant
    8. Raspberry Pi feeding ADSBexchange
    9. Raspberry Pi running Ubiquiti controller
    10. PoE injector for UAP 1
    11. PoE injector for UAP 2

    I was planning on using two 6 gang surge-protected extension leads (one was never going to be enough) and I will have a 2 gang socket to plug these into, so I'll have 12 sockets. One spare and I've probably forgotten something!

    The extension leads do have 2 USB sockets on each but only 2.1A across the two sockets, and I already know from personal experience the Tado bridge doesn't like not being plugged into it's mains USB adaptor and Raspberry Pis are apparently fussy about power too.

    I could run the Pis off PoE though which with two UAPs running on PoE and a PoE splitter for the Tado bridge would save me 6 plug sockets, so I could lose a whole extension lead, have the option of running other stuff from PoE and have a spare plug on my 2 gang socket for future growth...

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