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The board you linked isn't a galvanic isolator, it's just a capacitor bank covering a bunch of different frequency ranges.

The ADUM isolator I linked as well as flyback converters use transformers to provide a high-voltage isolation barrier between the source and device being supplied.

Transformers are generally larger, more expensive, and less efficient than non-isolated DC circuits.

The POE supply itself is isolated (with a transformer) and doesn't need to be noisy necessarily - but if you want even more quiet, another level of isolation can't hurt.



Interesting. Do you know of any built products that use the approach you are suggesting ?




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