On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 16:50, Mark Foster wrote: > At 16:45 6/01/2003 +1300, you wrote: > >This is bloody dangerous. You would be shocked if you measured the > >potential difference between your cat5 conductor and your PCs chassis.. > > And for those not familiar, potential difference is another name for voltage :P > And its something id definately want to be checking on a long run.. This reminds me of a flat (well, ok, "shed") I used to live in - I rewired it after discovering over 120V difference between sockets on opposite ends of the living area. Providing the difference is not major, the isolating transformers in the network cards should handle it - they're tested to around 1KV if I remember correctly, and there's often a 500-1KV spark gap too. Lighting is considered "major" though ;-) Regards, Nic. -- Nic Bellamy <nic@bellamy.co.nz> Bellamy Consulting (NZ) Limited. +64-6-377-4957 Mobile: +64-21-251-8954 Internet Software & Security Consulting -- http://www.bellamy.co.nz/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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