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Chinese PoE extractor teardown

By: danman
4 February 2025 at 11:48

I needed to power some cameras using Power over Ethernet but they only supported 12V input, so I ordered some PoE extractors from ali. Here they are for your information.

Black one

White waterproof one

Conclusion

They both only support 100Mbps over 2 pairs. The wateproofing was quite annoying to remove but not impossible. It seems they both can be modified to support different input/output voltage. As you can see in the pictures, they are both using H6225K step-down regulator in a very similar design.

The circuit mostly corresponds to following schematic found on the internet:

Thank you for your attention.

Hellobox B1 satellite finder teardown

By: danman
26 January 2021 at 08:59

It is a very simple device for about $15. The main SoC is GX6605S. There is some limited info about this chip on C-SKY page and some technical docs at their tools repo. It communicates with a Bluetooth module TLSR8266 using UART. There is also 4MB SPI flash holding the whole bootloader called GxLoader, Linux kernel and filesystem with the main app. The last important chip is RDA5815M which handles the RF to I/Q conversion. In the future I plan to add an USB-to-Ethernet adapter and repurpose it as an cheap opensource SAT>IP server.

DDS518 teardown

By: danman
22 December 2020 at 21:10

It is quite simple device. The main chip is Vango V9821S – a single-phase energy metering SoC chip, then there is one EEPROM 24C04, optical isolation for S0, display and power supply circuitry and a display. There is no serial interface so no way how to get more data out of the device, only JTAG for programming.

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