What do you think of the surge suppression capabilities built into the PoE CRSes? I won’t have anything on a tower, just cameras mounted under the roof overhang. It’s probably fine, just getting the group thought.
Should I add external suppression?
I’m looking at a CRS328 for my house. It costs about 2x what the CRS326 costs but adds PoE. I looked at external PoE and it would likely cost me just as much to do it externally than just going up to the 328. That just leaves me with surge suppression concerns. There won’t be any towers in the mix, so I don’t know how warranted that concern is. There’s not even planned for anything to be on the roof, just under.
Adding external surge suppression gets quite expensive, at least to do it in an organized fashion.