What is you surge suppression experience

I'm OK with changing the forum. I like the discussion, it is expanding my knowledge.

What if anything do I need to do?

There's an AI attempt (seems quite reasonable.. attached).

It is in a few formats. I asked the AI to preserve all the details of suggestions, and only use the material in the discussion and comments, no external content.

Depending on if colporteur is OK with it, perhaps it could become a blog? Then it could have longer visibility (hopefully indexed by Google) since it is an interesting topic as mentioned.

surge_suppression_blog.zip

Many of my endpoints are PoE because of power. PoF power over fiber would be a game changer. I have visions of what the sfp would look like.

colporteur said:

PoF power over fiber would be a game changer

Sounds familiar   

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2003
Interference-free optical power delivery for electronics modules

Hi  colporteur,

Ah, yes, I see.

In that case, the situation is somewhat complex.

PoF (Power over Fiber) works only on a photovoltaic basis.

—>> there are optocouplers consisting of an LED and a solar cell within a single IC (photovoltaic optocouplers).
However, the current they can supply is very low.

One idea:
fiber optics — 1 transmitter and 1 receiver (FDDI standard) — combined with a solar charge-pump converter (using the free fibers as the light source) to power the remote module. A fiber optic cable typically contains eight fibers, so there are enough fibers available for the power supply converter.

Regarding your remote modules: what are their power requirements?

Yes, something like that.

That’s roughly what I had in mind, only using fiber-optic cables.

I had to plan projects of this kind in the late 90s and early 2000s, though unfortunately, I was never able to actually implement them; it would have been too expensive for the clients.
However, back then, I did transmit TV signals over a distance of 100 meters in a hotel using Cat 7 LAN cable and converters. That was a great project.

If I recall correctly, that project back in 2003 was for a medical application. The electronics were to be surgically implanted and powered remotely via the plastic optical fibre which passed through the skin to an external light source to power it.

Apparently stomach gases (and patients) don't react particularly well to sparks from copper based wires.

That would be a great research project.
I really don't want to lie, but over these years I think... something similar has come to my attention, either through hearings or sights.
I’ve been reading the electronics magazine *Elektor* for decades (since 1977) and following the EDN website; I’m sure they’ve reported on this topic several times.
Right now, connections are being made between electronics and bacteria; there is a lot of research going on in this area.
Well... "We are the Borg!"."You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!".. 

Me, I gots to git me one of doze.

I've used CAT 6 to carry HDMI. Expensive and not flexible but worked.