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Advice on colour astro camera and poe please


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Hi folks - and apologies if this question has come up before. I have an all sky camera with 2 cables, one usb3, and a power cable for a dew heater, running to a pc. I have both a ZWO 178c and an Altair Astro GPcam 3 178c and both have worked well with this set up - only one at a time of course! Now I need to move the setup to a darker site where the usb run would be far longer and where the nearest AC socket would be not more than 10 metres away. I am hoping I could use poe to overcome this problem.  

Would this be suitable for power and data to and from a USB3 camera and dew heater?

https://www.tp-link.com/uk/business-networking/accessory/tl-poe200/

This would give me the following: laptop to (powered) poe injector, poe injector to ASC housing (10m) cat 6 outdoor cable, inside housing - poe splitter - here I'd have to find or devise a short power cable to connect to the dew heater and another to change the ethernet out to a usb3 type B into the camera. Possibly something like this?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mobi-Lock-Ethernet-Network-Compatible/dp/B00NLL10P4

There would have to be another adapter to make type A into type B.

If this was possible I'd be able to resite the asc for the purchase of a few components only.

I'd be grateful for any advice.

Cheers

John B

Edited by Longinthetooth
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 POE is fantastic and I use it around my house.  But most are around 40- 57V, you would need to look into Passive POE to make this work.  Again, the voltage injected will be usually 24V and above.  Might need a DC - DC converter at the end.  

Might be easier to just use https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07L6WLR51/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and a Power bank with 12 V output to feed the one above. 

I have installed the above and installed an Outdoor ethernet socket in a BG single gang outdoor switch, the outdoor socket is connected to a wall ethernet socket.  Once I set it up, I can stay indoor 😀

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