Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!
Jon Elson
elson at pico-systems.com
Thu Jun 28 21:39:41 CDT 2018
On 06/28/2018 12:22 PM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> What amazed me is that none of the NICs blew, none of the
> machines failed or died. Once the cabling was sorted, it
> was OK. Who knew that BNC Ethernet ports could handle 100V
> or more flowing through them and mostly work?
They are galvanically isolated, good for several thousand Volts.
The transceiver is powered by a tiny transformer, and the
signals are passed through several more.
Jon
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