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by justinclift 2005 days ago
This point I'm not so sure about:

  Do not buy a multi-charger for the RPi4, they may appear
  to work, however if you look into things you will find
  that they are "browning out". Official adapters are not
  expensive, my advise is not to be stingy.
Are they meaning things like this?

https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07BSBYKDQ

Personally, I've been looking at setting up an RPI4 based cluster and was thinking of getting one of those.

Though ideally, I'd probably go with something that can remotely power on/off any given RPI4

eg Shoot The Other Node In The Head (STONITH) for HA and testing, etc.

With proper rack servers, we used to use these:

https://www.wti.com/products/ips-800-ce-internet-power-switc...
1 comments
ErikBjare 2005 days ago
I'd recommend getting a PoE switch and put an PoE HAT on each device.

Multi-chargers are trouble since they are rarely able to deliver the 5V 3A, unlike the official adapter.

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justinclift 2004 days ago
Interesting thought, thanks. :)

Probably don't want to get a new PoE switch, as I have a decent (fanless, silent) 16 port HP Procurve switch already that's barely utilised.

PoE switches never seem to be silent, and would annoy me. ;)

The other option I've been thinking of, is getting one of those "smart" power control boards + flashing it with Tasmota (https://tasmota.github.io) firmware.

That should work, and allow for using the official RPI4 adapters. :)

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