jonheal Wrote: > POTS systems, if I'm not mistaken sent 48V down those skinny wires to > ring your phone. Surely those two unused ethernet wires could handle 5 > lousy volts at 2 amps.
PoE is also 48V and the reason why it is the voltage loss in the cable. You could send 5V at the source but end up with 4V at destination if the cable is long (40 feet and above). Cable gauge on the other hand determines how much amps you can put through and I am not sure the tiny ethernet wire could stand 2 amps. So the 5V, 2A idea might not work... Now what the SqueezeBox wants is 10W (5V*2A) so at 50V, it is only 0.2amp and that goes well into the tiny cable, and the 1V drop from 48V to 47V is not that dramatic. Voila for the theory :-) Fred -- Fred ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2170 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21936 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
