It's not necessarily this simple. There is an approximately 50-75foot cable run through ceilings and walls (CAT5) to the location where the phones will be. At the phone location there is no power.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:33 PM, David Backeberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dbackeberg@gmail.com">dbackeberg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Matt <<a href="mailto:mhoppes@gmail.com">mhoppes@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="im">> I've got an interesting situation where I have one cable run from the feed<br>
> area to the service area. I have three devices that I need to power at the<br>
> service area. Is anyone aware of a device that will take the POE from the<br>
> cable run and then allow me to split it to two or three devices at the<br>
> service end?<br>
<br>
</div>The obvious answer is "don't do that".<br>
<br>
*buy DC power bricks for the phones / devices<br>
*buy a small PoE switch for the area, plugged into the single ethernet<br>
cable as a trunk<br>
*pull more cable from the original endpoint<br>
<br>
Any of those three will be more reliable and predictable when<br>
debugging than inventing your own PoE solution. I've tried to invent<br>
my own PoE solution using a soldering iron and bulk ethernet cable.<br>
Take it from me, don't go down that road. Yes, you will learn all<br>
manner of interesting things about DC voltage loss over distance,<br>
blah, blah, blah.<br>
<br>
Your time is almost undoubtedly worth more money than you'll save by<br>
pursuing the 'conventional approaches'. Just don't do it.<br>
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