Very good. This extended dialogue about insurance and such is probably useful for others....
[Philosophy/Rant warning]: but personally, I have never had to live or work in an insured environment, thank God. My father is an insurance agent, but I consider most insurance (including health) to be a cure worse than the disease, both on a society-wide basis and personally, unless you are one of those ugly people who game the system at the expense of others.
Anyway, I am able to deal with reality and not worry about insurance and litigious society. My own home in the US is an old adobe with a metal roof (all new wiring installed illegally by me) so they never would insure it anyway, even if I wanted. I'm self-insured and like it that way. I try to do things practically correct more than literally.
As far as safety, living in a developing country (Mexico) one sees both how useful (at times) and how ridiculously anal (other times) the hyper-safe US mentality can be. I'm not advocating it, but here, people wire things up with open connections, no tape, no wire nuts, no boxes, and it still works ! OK, they do usually have boxes and tape on connections , but sometimes not- and bare wires are common enough. For whatever reason, death or injury by shock does not appear to be at a detectable level compared to, say, crime or car wrecks etc. I've never heard of an electrical injury in this area, but vehicle accidents are announced daily . I suspect that living in a self-responsible society helps people develop awareness of hazards, although rank stupidity is hardly in short supply here either ! __________________________________
In my case, I am considering running an ac extension in a conduit with the Cat5e for powering an AP on a pole. Too far to extend the DC side of the wall wart. Nobody will ever be anywhere near this plastic conduit and the likeliness of having both the hot and ethernet insulations fail in the exact same point and touch and then have another failure at the connector end such that anybody would touch that is very, very high. More likely to get snake bit standing there !
Though now that I've decided to deploy an old Linksys V4 in this spot, I'm seeing that for $20 I can get a power injector/splitter kit. I wonder if the 12 v power supply will handle 120 feet. I remember Jeff pointing out that they are quite robust and can take a huge drop in voltage...
Let's see, I send 12v * 1A over 120' of 23 ga wire? 5 volts, it appears. But doesn't POE use a pair for each side, so two 23 ga is what, like 18 ga? If so, then 1.5 volts... the linksys could handle it ?
Steve