[geeks] Cat 5 Interference

[Kris Kirby]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Peter Street wrote:
> The 'office geek' had wired the system up...  I suppose the moral of the
> story is - if you are going to wire 'em together, put a piece of metal
> between 'em to damp out the electromagnetic interference.

Putting metal next to power wire is asking for trouble. You just might
wind up with linear transformer if there is wire on the other side of the
blocking metal.

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