Raspberry pi 4b PoE hat compatible with fan add on?

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Hey guys
Do you know if there is enough room for this fan to sit on top of this Poe hat?

Smart Cooling Hat For Raspberry Pi 4

SKU: DFR0672 Brand: [DFRobot]

With this

Power over Ethernet HAT (E) for Raspberry Pi 3B+/4B, 802.3af-compliant

SKU: WS-23285 Brand: [Waveshare]

Thx!

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Hi @Robert164578

Looking at both of those hats from your post I would say there is better options for having PoE and also active cooling, being either the Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT or Waveshare Power over Ethernet HAT (D) (Pi 3B+/4B).

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Thx Dan…
I forgot to mention…the only reason I chose that hat,is RGB

Otherwise I do have other cooling options, but extra rgb is always nice :slightly_smiling_face:

Let me know when you can if it’ll work

I have a few old those PoE hats, and the gpio pins from the pi do not protrude out from the PoE area which covers the first top 6 pins, (1-6 5v, 3v gnd etc), so how would this hat receive power? Is a crazy work around even possible?
:grin:
Rob

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Hi Robert,

Being that the headers don’t protrude from the PoE hat you would need to look at using something like PoE+ HAT Push-Fit Extra Tall Header Kit give you some extra pin length through the PoE hat.

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That’s some big pins.
I think that’ll do the trick!

Thx!

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