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Raspberry Pi Foundation Announces a New Power Over Ethernet HAT

posted by martyb on Monday May 24 2021, @08:34PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Announcing the Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced the Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT compliant with 802.3at (aka PoE+) and 802.3af standards and support for up to 25.5 Watts input.

It will replace the Raspberry Pi PoE HAT introduced in 2018 which was limited to 802.3af standard with a maximum of 15.4 Watts input and will become available around mid-June for $20 plus taxes and shipping.

HAT = Hardware Attached on Top.

Here is a competing Waveshare PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi 3B+/4B.

Also at CNX Software.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @02:20PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 25 2021, @02:20PM (#1138571)

    Yeah, but why would you use a raspi instead of something that is well designed and guaranteed to last for a decade or a more?

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 26 2021, @01:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 26 2021, @01:13AM (#1138785)

    The original question is where a PoE would help with a pi. As to why you would use a pi at all is a different question. Clusters of pis are helpful for practicing on commodity hardware with widespread support, or when the embarrassingly parallel nature of your problem benefits from 10+ pis vs 1 server. Industrial settings are hard on everything and often don't have power available where you want it, better to have the minimum buy-in that is easily field replaced by untrained individuals than dedicated hardware that leads to downtime. Remote installs are often out of your control or expensive to replace and often don't have power available where you want it, using a well-known pi, makes all of that setup easier. High availability requires redundancy, easy failover, and repair and the pi makes that easier to get on independent machines for relatively low cost.