Embedded and hobbyist electronics specialist Waveshare has launched a brand new model of its Energy-over-Ethernet (PoE) {Hardware} Connected on Prime (HAT) accent for the Raspberry Pi 5 — this time boasting a slimmed-down design that performs properly with the official Raspberry Pi Lively Cooler.
“The PoE HAT (H) is an IEEE 802.3af/at-compliant PoE (Energy Over Ethernet) HAT for Raspberry Pi 5/CM [Compute Module] 5,” the corporate explains of its newest launch. “By utilizing with a PoE router or change that helps the IEEE 802.3af/at community customary, it’s potential to offer each community connection and energy provide in your Raspberry Pi in just one Ethernet cable.”
Waveshare’s new PoE HAT (H) is rather a lot smaller than its predecessor, and appropriate with the Raspberry Pi 5 Lively Cooler. (📷: Waveshare)
There’s nothing new about that, in fact: whereas Raspberry Pi’s personal in-house design has but to launch, a variety of appropriate PoE adapters have been launched for the Raspberry Pi 5 — together with by Waveshare, amongst different third-party producers. The corporate’s new mannequin affords no options lacking from the unique, however reasonably a redesigned structure that makes the board appreciable smaller.
The brand new variant, dropped at our consideration by CNX Software program, is dubbed the PoE HAT (H) to tell apart it from the older PoE HAT (F). The C-shaped suits on the Raspberry Pi 5’s 40-pin general-purpose enter/output (GPIO) header and mounts through bundled pillars onto the board’s 4 mounting holes — however doesn’t embody a cooling fan, not like the unique. It is designed as a substitute to hover over the official Raspberry Pi Lively Cooler, partially overlaying the DC blower fan however leaving many of the heatsink uncovered.
The HAT will also be put in in a low-height mode, squeezing beneath the fan within the official Raspberry Pi 5 Case. (📷: Waveshare)
For these utilizing the Raspberry Pi 5 Case, in the meantime, the PoE HAT (H) is appropriate with that too, by discarding the longer GPIO header pins and mounting pillars and connecting the HAT on to the Raspberry Pi 5 on smaller pillars — even when utilizing the case’s non-obligatory cooling fan, Waveshare guarantees. In each instances, it gives a full IEEE 802.3af/at compliant PoE implementation, accepting 38-57VDC in through the Raspberry Pi 5’s RJ45 socket and outputting 5VDC at as much as 5A through the GPIO header.
The PoE HAT (H) is now accessible on the Waveshare retailer, priced at $21.99 together with the HAT, header extensions, brief and lengthy mounting pillars, and screws; a bundle with the official Raspberry Pi 5 Case can also be accessible at $29.99.
