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

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Saturday, September 21, 2002 at 13:59:01 (-0500), Jonathan C. Patschke wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Anyone here familiar with 10Base36 ?!?
>
> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> > Except that most fibre cable for outdoor use has a metal jacket....  :-)
> 
> I'd always seen it run in some sort of nonconducting conduit under
> ground.  Is the jacketed variety for running on poles?

The jacketed variety can be run underground too -- indeed is sometimes
preferred, esp. the type that's also filled with petroleum jelly....

> > Make sure it's properly grounded!
> 
> No doubt.  A quarter-mile of exposed metal wire at roof-level could attact
> a lot of lightning.

The metal jacket is not exposed -- there's a PVC jacket over top of it.
But it's still a lightning risk (or a risk for any power distribution
cables that are over even just 600 volts or so....)
 
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