GS305EP Power

Question

Can I hook my GS305EP to DC power?&nbsp; If so, what are the specs I need to hook it up?

schumaku · Answer

Yes - it's requiring 54 V DC power, the GS30xEP comes with a 1.25A power supply , the GS30xEPP comes with a 2.4A power supply.

Source: User Manual - Technical Data https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/GS305EP/GS305EP-EPP_GS308EP-EPP_UM_EN.pdf

mdd397 · Answer

So I need to buy a dc power upconverter to make it work?

schumaku · Answer

If your DC world is say 12, 24, or 48 V afraid yes.Alternate, you might consider to use the provided power supplies and feed from an AC converter.

tmittelstaedt · Answer

Are you even using PoE devices at all?&nbsp; If you go to a store like BestBuy and try buying a small ethernet switch, you won't get anything managed that runs off 12v power at all.&nbsp; All you will get is the ones that have half PoE and half regular ports.&nbsp; The stores do this because they want to have a once-size-fits-all switch they don't what to stock 2 separate managed switches, a poe one and a non-poe one.&nbsp; But Netgear sells plenty of small managed non-PoE switches that run off 12vdc&nbsp;if you ARE supplying PoE to a device, consider if you can just power the device from a separate adapter.&nbsp; For example I have a desk phone here that runs off either PoE or it runs off 5v DC from an adapter.&nbsp;In general it's a lot easier to buck DC than boost it.&nbsp; If your world is mobile and you are running 12V DC power then you can feed a 5vdc device easily with just a single 20 cent 7805.&nbsp; But if you try to boost it, the boost device has to convert the DC into AC, then transform that and then convert it back to DC.&nbsp;If you are in a telco closet you have -48v DC.&nbsp; That's also simple to drop to 12v and it will also directly feed most PoE injectors.&nbsp; Consider unplugging your PoE devices from the switch and plugging in a non-PoE switch then plugging in PoE injectors.

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