I’be been using a Raspberry PI with a DVB-T2 card so we can stream TV to our PCs and tablets around the house. As the PI sometimes crashes I’ve wanted to make it work with passive POE, I’ve also wanted to put it in a box.
So I’ve built a box which has a barrel connector for my POE adaptor cables. The box also has a DC/DC converter to convert the 12V-24V I’m using in my server cabinet to the 5V required for the Raspberry PI.
As there wasn’t room in the box to have a lead going from the USB power socket on the PI i decided to feed power in via the expansion connector (i also didn’t have many spare USB cables). Unfortunately this has the disadvantage of bypassing the poly fuse which protects the PI so I will probably add my own at a later date.
