LOAD BALANCING REVERSE POWER SUPPLY

摘要

A power supply unit (120) includes a plurality of the interface ports (132) and a plurality of power delivery units (130), each coupled to one of the interface ports (132) and configured to extract power from data signals communicated over the interface ports (132) by remote devices (110). A sharing circuit (145) is coupled to each of the power delivery units (130) for generating a power supply voltage from the power extracted from the data signals. A controller (155) is configured to generate a communication line power loss estimate for each of the interface ports (132) and configure the power delivery units to balance amounts of power supplied by each of the remote devices (110) based on the communication line power loss estimates.