HELP: My wall warts are breeding ...

[rrh]

I have 10+ PSU wall warts (with more due), including those for multiple Raspberry Pi's, fibre CPE & router, DECT base station and handset (for VOIP), external USB drives etc. - nothing fancy, just the result of today's technology.

The situation is further exacerbated by the placement of the power prongs relative to unit's body: some are vertical, some are horizontal'.

Question: has anybody a solution - even a semi-solution - to this mish-mash of 5/9/12V PSU's, other than purchasing yet another multi-plug ?

 

[grok]

Try Yamp - yet another multi-plug!

 

[Tinuva]

Same situation, however I am not sure if my solution will work for you. Well I call it a solution but I still have to buy the stuff to put it into action.

Most of my things with these PSUs that I want my solution for, is also mostly devices that can accept PoE. Those that are not, I do will use converters.

So my solution, a 16port passive PoE injector. It is rackmount 1u strip that will run on 48v.
Then for the devices that can't do 48v.

You get PoE splitters, that split the 48v out.
For RaspPi, you get it to convert and split out to 5v on a USB B Micro adapter.
For my ONT on 12v, there are 2 options, 1a or 2a converter with those barrel plugs.
For my cameras it also split out to 12v.
My router (Mikrotik) accepts 12-56v so thats fine.
Still have to look into what the VOIP phone will use.

The splitters will be at the devices. Converters can be hidden behind my patch panel.

Anyways this is the idea I am building for myself, but I can see it not working for everyone.

 

[FNfal]

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PSU and UPS in one with multiple 9V and 12V outputs .

 

[Speedster]

I ordered this guy. Still need to hook it up though

 

[rrh]

Many thanks for the suggestions, all of which have been researched.

@FNfal: I must admit that he UltraLan products interested me, mainly 'cos the solution included a UPS.

After many hours on Google (and even more guesswork) I decided that it might be worth investigating the smaller 45W model to use the DC interface to drive a 4 port USB module with step-down. This would be woefully under-powered - given that the DC interface is rated at a maximum of 3A - but (in my case) I am only using a bare-bones model 2 & ditto 3B, so should be adequate.

The PoE is passive - my VOIP is 802.3af - but (with a little luck) this should be capable of being resolved by an auto-sensing adapter.

@Speedster: If all else fails, I have an unused ATX PSU that I can use. Now to find a suitable enclosure <sigh>