[rescue] Anyone here familiar with 10Base36 ?!?

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Sat Sep 21 13:50:45 CDT 2002


[ On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 13:00:23 (-0500), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Anyone here familiar with 10Base36 ?!?
>
> An added benefit to 10baseFL is that the data is moved via light rather
> than electricity, so you have electrical isolation.  You'll truly see
> the benefits of electrical isolation in the cases of a lightning strike or
> a difference in ground potential between the sites.

Except that most fibre cable for outdoor use has a metal jacket....  :-)

Make sure it's properly grounded!

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