POE Lighting? Are we there yet?

[American Locomotive]

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. POE switches still are not cheap and having to home run every light isn't helpful either. Especially in the residential sense where things are very cost sensitive.

It seems similar to the "smart home" stuff where lights and radios and tv are voice controlled. Honestly, I think thats a fad, and I'm a pretty technological person. I'd rather use a light switch than have to say "alexa turn off the island lights". Geofencing does have its merits though.

Well think about how much a single Square D QO breaker costs, and then how most modern homes will usually divide lighting up by room (so you need one breaker per room) and your costs quickly go very high.

A basic POE switch is pretty cheap these days. Ethernet cable is typically 1/3-1/2 the cost per foot of 14-2 nm-b, and would be much easier/less labor intensive to run as well.

Obviously right now POE lights and POE light switches are pricey, but the costs will come down.

Because it's customarily done? But like I said, this is a forum, and not a professional paper, or report, so most rules are thrown out the window.

If PoE was an obscure, unofficial term in a niche industry, I would agree with you. But PoE is basically an industry standard term throughout the consumer and professional space - so it's reasonable for people to not write it completely out.

But for those of us just hanging around trying to learn something new, it would have been helpful.

Part of learning is having the desire to learn and find things yourself. It's called being a self-directed learner. It takes 0.5 seconds to open a new browser tab, and another 2 seconds to type "what is poe?" in. The first result on Google is "Power over Ethernet". Looking things I don't know up is second nature to me now - I don't even think twice about it. If I see an acronym I don't know - it immediately gets fired into Google.

If the Google search result didn't yield a result that made sense for the context of the conversation - simply ask: "What is poe?" in the thread.

 

[mike93lx]

To maximize smart-assery/pedantics, neither POE nor USB are acronyms. They are initialisms

 

[American Locomotive]

To maximize smart-assery/pedantics, neither POE nor USB are acronyms. They are initialisms

Maybe to you, but I pronounce POE and USB as words. So they're acronyms for me.

 

[mike93lx]

Maybe to you, but I pronounce POE and USB as words. So they're acronyms for me.

Uhs-bee? Poh-eee? Nice, I like it

 

[BB Sig]

Laugh Out Loud (LOL). a little fun never hurts!

I already own the POE switches! No cost there and I already planned to run the wiring to electrical drops anyways for future proofing.

I've still got connections to the local community college Information Technology (IT) professors. Part of this would be giving them some new projects for the students to get engaged in newer technology.

I'm halfway thinking of seeing how to build my own POE lights using light strips and a system board... Still researching that rabbit hole!

 

[American Locomotive]

Uhs-bee? Poh-eee? Nice, I like it

"yous-buh" and "p-oh"

 

[mike93lx]

"yous-buh" and "p-oh"

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