I have run up to 600 volts on CAT 5.
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From: Dev
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2017 10:00 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] PoE Cat5/6 cable distances
> Are you trying to exceed 100 meters? Is there a good reason not to use
> fiber + DC power?
Maybe. My bigger problem is how to get 24
volts/whatever-that-can-be-regulated-down-to-24v to the other end of a 800
foot wire run without too much voltage drop/heat so I could power
<whatever-to-power-fiber-things+20watts> for a micropop without wire the
size of my thumb.
I guess I could run a transformer to up-convert from 110VAC to <something>
and then another one on the other end to run smaller wire, but I don’t know
if that’s practical vs just buying something off the shelf. Wondering if
someone’s already solved the problem and can recommend what they did,
besides google and guess.