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Pros & Cons
Pros
The hat works as expected and is happily powering my * in a rack. It has a hardware switch that will put the fan permanently on and that should be ok for most people. I like the fact that this has an lcd screen to display information in addition to th... Read More
All of them perform flawlessly and i will purchase more as needed. It works out of the box. The wiki is here https://www. Techcrunch.
Cons
Any installation information is on their wiki, which is just as laughable. The poe functionality of the hat is fine, but if you want the oled display to work, you must first go to the waveshare website and find their instructions. Impossible to use wi... Read More
Highlights
Quality
The ethernet works, it delivers power and the fan is very quiet!
Fan does an excellent job cooling the pi and being able to manage the fan based on temperature is nice.
Only real problem is that the fan is of bad quality and one of two of these units it keeps stalling/making an annoying noise.
The problems i've been running into are:- takes over all gpio pins or a large portion of them due to size- not efficient for po... Read More
Price
Bought a 4 pack of fans on amazon for 7 bucks to address the fan.
While this product is good and performs well, it is a too pricy for me to use in any larger scale deployments.
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This is not silent but its also not obnoxious like the little bee buzzing fans in the older pi poe hats
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The fan has more of a constant whirring sound but it is noticeable
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I exchanged one within days of use
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Eventually they will become noisy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I had poe hats on my raspberry pi 4s that had very noisy fans
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was able to file down the 2 screw holes to get this to fit inside my flirc passivly cooled case which would not have worked with the official hat
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Im trying to put together a small pi build to be rackmounted
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Poe is an excellent way to provide power and ive used various official poe hats in the past but found these small poe hats
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