Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector on sale now at $25

Way back in 2018 we launched Raspberry Pi 3B+, the first Raspberry Pi with Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) support. We’ve been shipping PoE-powered devices, with the occasional hiccup, ever since. And today, we’re happy to announce the launch of the Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector, the perfect way to add PoE support to your existing network for just $25.

Power to the people

Many of our favourite Raspberry Pi applications, from garden webcams to industrial controllers, involve putting our products in out-of-the-way locations, where they act as a bridge between the network and the physical world. But the more out-of-the-way the location, the more challenging it is to get power.

PoE offers one solution to this problem, allowing you to send power from Power Sourcing Equipment (PSE) to a Powered Device (PD) over the same four-pair cabling used to carry Ethernet data. All Raspberry Pi SBCs since 2018 have been able to function as a PD, when equipped with an optional PoE or PoE+ HAT.

At the other end of the cable, there are two common types of PSE:

• A PoE switch combines the network switching and power sourcing functions into a single device.
• A midspan injector connects to a non-PoE switch, and injects power into the cable while passing through network data in both directions.

Developed with our friends at Microchip, the new Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector is the perfect way to power your networked Raspberry Pi projects (and other PoE devices) if you’re not lucky enough to have a PoE switch. It supports both the IEEE 802.3af (PoE, 13W) and IEEE 802.11at (PoE+, 25W) standards, and mains voltages between 100V and 240V.

Very demure, very mindful

You’ll need to provide your own IEC mains lead. In the unlikely event that your house is not, like mine, overrun with the things, many of our Approved Reseller partners will be happy to sell you one.

Kettle lead: model’s own

Fighting the power

There is, you may have noticed, something missing. While Raspberry Pi 5 provides a 4-pin PoE power connector, our first-party PD accessory, the snappily-named Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, is missing in action. This promises to be our smallest, most efficient PD accessory, and is in the final stages of development, having absorbed a lot of Dominic’s attention and brainpower over the last couple of years. Watch this space!

While we always say we can’t wait to see what you do with any new product, we are actually pretty sure we know what you are going to do with this one. But we’re confident you’ll do it with style.

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