Talk:Power-over-fiber
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Undue emphasis?[edit]
It's not clear to me why the Sandia technology is even worth mentioning. It's a prototype that can't yet power anything other than its own electronics. There are, on the other hand, commercial power-over-fiber systems that do what this does, which are already on the market.[1] --Srleffler (talk) 06:06, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
How much power?[edit]
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This is not an edit, but a request for info - how much power can it carry and what can it power?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vfjnksdfjhgdsvnsadl (talk • contribs) 15:43 15 September 2014
- The most common thing to power would be a receiver or transceiver, so that the remote equipment doesn't need any power supply of its own. The prototype system in one of this article's references carries just enough power to run its own communications electronics.
- The other reference in the article is to a system that carries 70 Watts over the fiber, and uses it to power a small drone.--Srleffler (talk) 01:26, 16 September 2014 (UTC)