Low Voltage DC power distribution in home labs

[nickscott18]

Been putting a bit of thought into this lately, and was wondering what other people do about low voltage distribution in their home labs. Reason I ask is at the moment, I've 6 wallwarts (4x 12v, 4x USB) in my lab, and a larger 12V power supply supplying power for the IP cameras, and I figure there must be a better way.

At the moment, I'm looking at going with something along the lines of Amazon.com: Anker PowerPort 6 (60W 6-Port USB Charging Hub) + [6-Pack] Premium 1ft Micro USB Cables for Samsung Galaxy, Nexus, HTC, Motorola and More: Electronics for powering the USB devices, and powering all the 12V devices off the larger 12V supply (5.5mm DC pigtails are easy, and cheap, to come by).

How is everyone else doing this - I figure I'm not the only one with this issue?

 

[T_Minus]

POE

W/out injectors.

 

[Chuckleb]

I have that Anker block, love it. Charges wickedly fast for my devices.

 

[Aluminum]

+1 POE, honestly the home automation industry and similar 'premium' stuff should adopt this completely since all the legwork/engineering is done already: longer runs, less loss and it carries data plenty fast as a bonus.

Stepping down inside the device from 48~24V to 12~5V is easy-peasy to design especially if you aren't bottom gutter lowest bidder cheapest noname chinese factory.

 

[TechIsCool]

Most of the stuff I run is either 24v or 5v. I have a single larger power supply for my 24v stuff and step down the other stuff

 

[nickscott18]

POE

W/out injectors.

Time to keep an eye out for a POE Gigabit switch by the looks of the comments here. Moving to 1 gigabit switch, and swapping over my wifi AP's to POE compatible ones will get rid of 3x wallwarts, leaving just the one for the the ONT - will also allow me to get rid of the POE injector block, and tidy that all up as well.
And go to something like the anker block for the USB devices in the rack (Chromecast, Raspberry Pi x2, IR extender - the rack does double duty for AV kit as well).