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This morning, I’d like to pour one out for a truly awesome piece of gear that did everything I asked of it without complaint and died before its time: my Unifi 8-port POE switch, model US-8-150W.
A couple of estimates from local companies told me that trenching conduit between my house and the garage was going to cost several hundred dollars, which was more than I wanted to spend.
The reason why this switch warrants a front-page write-up is the sheer aplomb with which it handled the ridiculous amount of heat-related abuse it had to put up with.
During the summer—which in Houston lasts about 10 months out of the year—the garage temperature can get above 120°F (around 50°C) and stay that way for 10 or 12 hours, and the US-8-150W’s CPU thermal sensor spent most of its operational life reading between 70°–80°C.
In fact, the switch would still be in place, happily doing its thing, if not for a lightning strike near my home a couple of months back.
Two ports quit working altogether, and two others wouldn’t produce PoE anymore, but the US-8-150W soldiered on for another month while I hunted around for a replacement.
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