@Dashrender said in PoE powered lighting:

@scottalanmiller said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

Why? What's the reason for wanting that? You can basically power any super low voltage DC device with it today. And that's handy for data devices where that reduces a cable since it needs a connection to the switch anyway. Other than that, sounds not just boring, but just bad.

I'm kinda in the same boat - why do I want my lights tied into my switches costing me money on ethernet ports? Why not just have those lights tied directly into AC power?

I mean remote access to control the lights, sure I get that - but giving them power via POE? why?

Also, it's just funny to think of IT being in charge of the lights.

@Dashrender said in PoE powered lighting:

@scottalanmiller said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

Why? What's the reason for wanting that? You can basically power any super low voltage DC device with it today. And that's handy for data devices where that reduces a cable since it needs a connection to the switch anyway. Other than that, sounds not just boring, but just bad.

I'm kinda in the same boat - why do I want my lights tied into my switches costing me money on ethernet ports? Why not just have those lights tied directly into AC power?

I mean remote access to control the lights, sure I get that - but giving them power via POE? why?

Yeah, even then I'm not sure why you need remote access to the lights. Annoying pranks.

@scottalanmiller said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

Well, what you can power with PoE rarely means you should. I can power just about anything, doesn't always make it a good idea.

Oh for sure. But who knows, this technology looks kinda promising. Maybe in 10 years it'll be worth it.

What's the "worth it", in this case? What factor of it makes it even interesting?

I'll call you in 10 years.

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

@Markferron said in PoE powered lighting:

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

Well, what you can power with PoE rarely means you should. I can power just about anything, doesn't always make it a good idea.

Oh for sure. But who knows, this technology looks kinda promising. Maybe in 10 years it'll be worth it.

@travisdh1 said in PoE powered lighting:

I haven't dealt with it myself, but Ubiquiti makes one that is priced close to what you'll pay for normal lighting. The big difference is that you're not paying an electrician to wire the things in, "just" network cable installers. Which can be a big difference in certain areas of the country.

I'm curious to see how far the PoE industry will go. It'll be cool to see in 10 years what the average person can power over PoE.

@Kelly Just out of curiosity, were those people in IT or electrical/maintenance? It would be interesting to see what department would pay for what when things go wrong.

I've just been reading up on all the wonders of PoE powered lighting and I was just wondering if anyone here has had to deal with these installations before. What are your experiences? Are they worth the pricing with new buildings?

@scottalanmiller Thanks, figured as much.

@dafyre Yup

But if we are talking servers they are likely running some kind of hypervisor. Does the hypervisor run defrag?

Yeah it's a our hypervisor cluster. I can't find any mention of defragging in the documentation, but their documentation is a little scant on the real nitty gritty side.