Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

[Jon Elson]

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