Raspberry Pi PoE HAT Reviews

4.4 Rating 99 Reviews

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“Excellent low impact eco packaging. Plug in and go, soooo simple. 2 points are I'm unsure how easy it now is to access the pins, there is a decent gap between the pi header and hat so you can get something in between. I'm also using this with a Pi4b so can confirm it is supported.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Unfortunately not yet delivered. Now waiting for 15 days until I can follow up with Royal Mail. I always pay for a courier, but there was no option at checkout, as far as I could see. Will not Re order.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Fast delivery and better than the previous version”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Works perfectly, although I drilled the original Pi case to make some use of the fan. I'm not using USB peripherals on this, so haven't seen any of the reported USB issues that exist.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Great product”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I use the raspberry pi with the poe tophat running pi-hole. The pi has been running for about a week now and the temp sits around 48 C. The only downside is the fan being a bit noisy, I was thinking about trying a replacement as at the temp shown it tends to kick in and out a bit. If noise isn't an issue it would appear to be 5 stars so far. I meant to add, i used the usb output to power a 7inch lcd screen and it worked fine, i believe the original poe tophat had issues with usb power.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“New version works great. Everything I needed”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I really wanted to like this. It's notably more compact than third-party PoE hats. It’s neater than third-party PoE hats. The temperature-controlled fan works really well. It’s 'official' which if you're like me is nice. However, I hate it. I (like many others, a Google search has revealed) found that the 4-pin connector is...not great. Firstly, it's a surface mounted one and so connected by small solder tabs on the top of the PCB. Secondly, it is not otherwise physically affixed to the PoE hat. What this means is that when it is placed under tension (i.e. when seperating the Pi from the PoE hat), the surface solder pads take all of the load from the connector - which grips the 4 pins on the Pi *very tightly*. The result of this is that the connector breaks off of the PoE hat and remains attached to the Pi, thereby rendering the £18 PoE hat dead as a dodo. Essentially, four SMD solder pads are not strong enough to resist the mechanical force applied to them during normal use. To its credit, when I reported this The Pi Hut replaced it immediately but - despite being really careful - when I got the replacement I managed to pull two of the four pins broke away on that too! This is because I thought I would physically support the connector when removing it. But once the PoE hat has been installed, it's hard to get to all four sides of that connector in order to physically support it. Essentially: (1) If you are going to install this and never touch it, you will be fine. Make sure you install the posts *before* you push the board on as that will prevent you pushing it down too far and increasing the risk stated above. (2) If you are going to install it and will touch it, don’t buy this; just get a third-party PoE hat instead. Don't ignore this. (3) If you want to do what I did and ignore (2) then at least buy: i) an extended 40 pin GPIO riser; and ii) a 4 pin PoE header. This will set you back ££ but it's cheaper than laying waste to £18 boards. And speak to a heart surgeon about dexterity and keyhole surgery techniques.”

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Posted 6 years ago