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Jetson Thor carrier boards that can be powered over PoE

Asked as: “Is there a Jetson Thor carrier board that can be powered over PoE?”

Answered by the Rapidflare agent

No — I could not find a Jetson Thor carrier board that is powered over PoE. A catalog search for carrier boards that both support the Jetson Thor family and accept PoE power input returned zero matches, and when I reviewed all 26 Jetson Thor carrier boards individually, every one lists a DC voltage input as its power source (for example 9–36 V, 12–36 V, 18–36 V, 20–57 V, 24–48 V, and 36–60 V ranges) — none lists PoE as its power input.

A few points on what I did find, so you know where things stand:

  • Closest option — AVerMedia D333 Panther Carrier Board: it supports Jetson Thor T5000/T4000 and its description states that "PoE, extra USB, GMSL and RTK GNSS come through optional daughter boards", but its board power input is listed as an ATX 6-pin 12–36 V DC input. So the PoE capability here appears to be port-level functionality via a daughter board, not powering the board itself — the catalog does not state that the D333 can run on PoE alone, and I cannot verify that from the listed specs. profession... +1professional.avermedia.com ↗“PoE, extra USB, GMSL and RTK GNSS come through optional daughter boards”professional.avermedia.com ↗“ATX 6pin 12~36V DC Input”
  • Two other Thor boards are flagged with optional PoE: the Advantech ASR-A702 (power input 20–28 V) and the AVerMedia D331 (power input 9–36 V DC) both carry an "optional PoE" capability flag. Again, this reads as optional PoE on the Ethernet interfaces, not PoE power input for the board. advantech... +2advantech.com ↗“20-28V”advantech.com ↗“poe_optional=True”professional.avermedia.com ↗“9~36V DC Input”
  • PoE-powered carrier boards do exist in the catalog — just not for Thor: within the carrier-board category, 8 boards are listed as PoE-powered, but none of them supports the Jetson Thor family (that combined requirement is what produced the zero matches).

One caveat worth noting: for most Thor carrier boards the PoE-power-input field is simply not populated in the catalog, so the absence reflects what manufacturers publish rather than a verified impossibility — a vendor could in principle offer a PoE power option not captured here. If running a Thor board over a single Ethernet cable is a hard requirement for your deployment, the manufacturers above (AVerMedia, Advantech) would be the ones to confirm whether their optional-PoE daughter boards can also serve as the board's power source, since their datasheets list the PoE option without specifying its role.

Sources

  1. D333 Panther Carrier Board professional.avermedia.com
  2. ASR-A702 advantech.com
  3. D331 professional.avermedia.com