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I wish PoE were more common as an option to power these SBCs.


PoE devices needs an isolation transformer in order to be compliant, and it takes quite some real estate. However, so does 110V/220V, but i guess we're so used to "hiding" it in a wall-wart.


Something like [0] would basically cover your PoE adapter needs for this, right? Remember that these SBC's also don't directly cover using 120V AC mains power as an option; they rely on a wall wart for that.

The trade-off to the gain in mechanical flexibility of having a very small size is that you have to put the big (in miniature electronics terms) inductors elsewhere.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Gigabit-Ethernet-Splitter-TL-...


Yeah, I have PoE to USB-C splitters like this one:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07TJ3ZNJ4/

I used it to power a phone used as 5G backup to my Internet connection, combined with this Ethernet to USB-C with power passthrough adapter:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B086SV2FK4/

Works, but way clunkier than a built-in solution.


there is a PoE-Hat addon available, at least.

edit: just realized that you meant other projects.




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