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

[Dave McGuire]

On Saturday, September 21, 2002, at 04:15 PM, Greg A. Woods wrote:
>>> Except that most fibre cable for outdoor use has a metal jacket....
>>> :-)
>>
>>    I use "ordinary" fiber and put it in a liqui-tite conduit or
>> something similar.
>
> That's a good idea -- though I don't know about going several 
> kilometers
> that way.....

   That's the way it's usually run underground.  That conduit is 
intended for burial; I've seen miles of it going in alongside the 
streets in Maryland.

>>> Make sure it's properly grounded!
>>
>>    ...and only at one end.
>
> No, that would in fact be dangerous!  The rules for grounding outside
> cable plants, especially aerial ones, are very much different.
<snip>

   You've raised some good points (hey, I'm an indoor guy)...I'll read 
up on this a bit and argue with you about it (if needed) later.

      -Dave

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