3 Feb
2002
3 Feb
'02
6:46 a.m.
I always liked the AMP-Tap system. I was an electricial/cable
contractor in the 1972-1996 period. We ran a lot of AMP Tap in the mid
to late 80's in factory environments. Use a 10B5 backbone to a repeater
and branch off the repeater with AMP Tap segements. I can't ever
remember a failure of a leg due to the AMP Tap system. I think we
bought most of our AMP stuff from Anixter in those days.
James
Tothwolf wrote:
On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Well, we could go back to using the AMP 10Base-2 thinnet tap type
connections. These have an internal switch in the tap, which is inline
with the RG58 segment. To use these, you need the special drop cable to
plug into the tap. When the twinaxial-style coax drop is unplugged from
the tap, the internal switches bypass the tap.
I picked up a bag of these things Saturday. It had 6 8.20ft. drop cables,
6 wall plates with taps, 2 of the special terminators, and an extra tap. I
already had a 25ft. drop cable laying around, so now I've got enough parts
for a 7 node AMP thinnet tap-style 10Base-2 segment.
-Toth
.
just use
custom port connectors as well? Maybe something like the old
4 prong phone connectors (don't know the name... those 4 straight pin
blocks old telco supplied phones used to have), or even something like
a DIN connector.
... or EVEN a BNC CONNECTOR!!! (which they'd probably assume was video)