Hello everybody, Paul Richards here, with PTZOptics and today we're looking at a Power
over Ethernet setup, PoE switch that you can pick up for less than one hundred dollars,
and PoE breakout cables.
Everyone's been asking about it so this should be an interesting vlog.
Stay tuned.
Okay so we've all been asking about PoE, power over Ethernet.
What is Power over Ethernet?
Well it's a really easy way to provide power for the cameras.
So if you're going to install this camera, let's say, in a church far away, or somewhere
in a conference room, or a studio, and you don't want to hire an electrician to put an
outlet right by the camera which might be in the ceiling, or in a vaulted pole mounted
place.
You can actually power the camera over ethernet using one of these Wifi-Texas breakout cables
with a regular PoE switch.
So I asked Texas Wifi, I said 'hey guys, can you send me everything I need to get this
done.'
So, um, let's go ahead and take a look here, um, this is opening the box.
So they sent me a PoE switch, um, which is an Airlink ASW408 PoE, the link is going to
be in the description.
And it actually provides a PoE to up to four cameras.
So it four of the ports, on this eight port switch are, uh, can provide power over Ethernet.
You can see these barrel adapters here, um, it does require a barrel adapter to get plugged
into the twelve volt power that we have on our cameras.
So you can see that's the breakout cable there, I'm going to go ahead and open up, and um,
I'm going to have that ready to plug into the cameras, and uh, I'm going to draw out
a wiring diagram to show everybody how this works.
It's very very simple.
As you can see there's one Ethernet cable and one power cable that breaks out from a
standard Ethernet that goes to the switch.
So the switch has a power supply, you know, you might want to put that switch in an electrical
area or somewhere where you have all of your networking information.
And then you can have power for the camera, and then Ethernet for the camera so that you
can still control the camera over the network cable and you can still plug it in.
So I'm going to draw a little diagram here, with four cameras.
Because this switch can power up to four cameras.
So these are my little cameras, I'm sorry they look like little men kind of.
Um, and then we're going to draw our switch in blue.
And I'm going to have blue for Ethernet and I'm going to have red for power.
So here's our little blue switch here and I'm going to draw the ports on here.
We mentioned that only four of the eight ports provide PoE so the first four ports provide
PoE.
You may already have a PoE switch, um, there's different PoE switches in things, but what
we're going to do is we are going to, uh, take the Ethernet just a standard CAT 5 or
CAT 6 cable to each camera.
And then once we get to each camera, we're going to plug in these little one foot breakout
cables that are going to provide Ethernet.
And then on the other breakout they're going to provide power.
So that's just the very simple way that this works.
And, um, it's going to provide power for up to four cameras.
Now if you have a larger switch, maybe you've got a sixteen port PoE switch, um, you don't
even need this switch we're talking about, you can use your own obviously and just by
these breakout cables this will work for our generation one cameras and our generation
two cameras.
So I'm just going to write up here eight port switch, um, and what I'll do is I'm going
to fade into actually plugging this all in, and showing you how to plug it in and get
it all working.
So, um, let's go ahead over here and add this.
Alright, so, now we have the switch here, I'm gonna I have it plugged in already, I'm
gonna plug in an Ethernet cable, and I'm simply gonna plug in our breakout cable here that
is part number WT-GAF-12W.
So we'll have all this in the description, the part numbers, the links to get this equipment,
I'm going to plug it into network so that I can still stream and control the camera.
I'm going to use my barrel adapter to go ahead and adapt the barrel to fit into the camera,
and now I'll just turn the camera on and you'll see it do it's little boot up dance and we
will be ready to go, um, with our, um, with our camera.
It's that simple.
So, um, I'm sure I've already talked to a lot of you guys out there who have spec-ed
this in, um, to jobs and what not, so I totally get it, it's a, it's a feature that a lot
of people need a lot of people want.
So hopefully this has been helpful, um, Wifi-Texas has been great about putting a link directly
on their website, so go ahead and take the link below, to get to these products, and,
um, they can help you out with all of your Power over Ethernet needs, so it's been a
great, uh, we've actually had them on this show last Friday, er, two Friday's ago, so
take a look at that, and get even more detailed information about this topic.
Thanks so much everybody, subscribe if you like this type of information.
Have a nice Monday, and a great rest of your week.