Could you clarify a bit what you mean by isolate?

This could mean:

The PoE and the lan sides are electrically separate (i.e. there's a set of
ethernet magnetics in it).
or
The power supply is electrically isolated on each port
or
There is no ground connection
or
.....

When you start talking PoE there are lots of ways to arrange the power
injection.  For instance, on all gigabit power injectors that packetflux
currently makes, the LAN side of the injector is totally electrically
isolated from everything else.   The PoE side has pins tied to either power
or return/neutral depending on how jumpers get set, with the note that by
'tied' means that we're connecting the center tap on the magnetics to those
pins.

Other injectors (and perhaps upcoming ones from packetflux) have fully
isolated DC power on the PoE, so there isn't any direct connection from the
PoE port to the source power supply.



On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:00 AM, Christopher Gray <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Chuck (Well, directed at Chuck, but interested to hear if anyone else has
> ideas),
>
> What would you consider a reliable method for checking a port for magnets
> / Ethernet transformers / isolation modules? Is it just a matter of testing
> the individual pairs for resistance or continuity?
>
> Every time I want to know if a port will isolate PoE on its own, I just
> crack the device open, and look. I'd like to be able to test externally if
> possible.
>
> Thanks for the help - Chris
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