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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by throw0101a on Monday June 24, 2019 @10:13AM (#20263682)
Seems kludge-y.

IMHO, if one is going to do one of these types of embedded systems, then PoE should really be part of the design process from the beginning.

They're using the Ethernet on the BCM2711, and Broadcom has sadly deemed PoE not needed I guess.

The PoE HAT had a bunch of issues:

* https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/11/raspberry_pi_poe_ha...

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by ars on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:27PM (#20266741)
> The PoE HAT had a bunch of issues

They released a new version quite a while ago.

I agree that it would be nice if PoE was built in, but there are better ways to say that than what you said.

Also, the HAT has a transformer (and I assume if they included it, they know what they are doing), which seems like it would be too much for every single Pi to include one.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 4 by zyx321 on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @06:08AM (#20272641)
It is a kludge. PoE is 48V DC, so any converter is gonna look bulky and impractical next to the Pi.
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