I fell in love with the Pironman5 case when I first saw it, and it arrived in the mail yesterday. It went together fine, but it raised a question: Has anybody gotten power over ethernet to work with the Pironman5? My POE Hat engages an additional four pins on the Raspberry Pi5. I could feed four bodge wires to it through the plexiglass but then I fear it’ll interfere with the power button, etc. An ideal solution would be for me to buy a POE hat from y’all that fits inside your case. Got one for sale? Am I silly to want POE?
We have not conducted the related compatibility testing. We cannot guarantee if it will work together.
We also have not tested powering the Pironman5 through Ethernet power.
We recommend using a Raspberry Pi power supply to power the Pironman5.
Hi friend, our pironman5 product is powered by a Raspberry Pi power supply.
Currently, the pironman5 does not support Ethernet power supply, and we have no plans to do so for the time being. Thanks for your understanding.
I just made super tall riser for the 4 pin connector and attached a PoE Hat on the side… it works fine, but I can’t put the side on, I plan to make an aluminum spacer with standoffs, some spacer rings, and then put the original side on after that… but maybe this will give you some ideas.
You could connect a PoE hat like this one with jumper wires, but the 4 pin connector is not enough, that only gets the PoE voltage into the Hat, it then feeds the 5V into the Pi through the GPIO pins… but I don’t see why you couldn’t feet the power into the 5V and GND connections on the GPIO extender board intended to expand the LED lighting. Then you just need to find a place to put it, maybe extend a screw higher with a standoff and secure it with that… just need to make sure it doesn’t short out on anything.
Here it is being powered by PoE on my CNC machine, where I have a PoE switch, but I have no outlets to plug in an adapter, and everything is 240V, so PoE is defiantly the best solution for me.
This is really cool.
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Can you provide any details on what you did to get it running with POE?
Just plug it into the GPIO header then I made a stack of headers to get all the way down to the POE header on the Pi
It’s hard to see because the header stack is black, I outlined it here, maybe you can see it. That 2x2 header on the Pi connects to the Ethernet pins that carry the POE voltage, the 2x2 header stack I made brings it up to the POE HAT, which backfeeds the 5V to the Pi through the GPIO port.
I’ve been meaning to make a support bracket for it and a case extension, but I got side tracked with other stuff.
Very helpful, thank you. What did you do with the pins on the POE hat sticking up outside of the case?
oh, I forgot about that, the POE Hat can be used as a pass through, so just get a header with long pins, the one I got had pins that stuck out 12mm and also had the spacer. remove the bottom spacer thing, push the header all the way though then put the spacer back on, no soldering, no fuss, works great! I even stacked various relays and stuff on after the POE hat and the GPIO all works great. Here are some photos
