chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (01/14/89)
>>However, many people have blissfully installed thick between buildings >>(including me) without any problem whatsoever. In article <13433@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) writes: >Your bliss may end the next time you have a nearby lightning strike. For a >few microseconds, you may find yourself with a 10kv potential difference >between your building grounds. Ask the network people at the University >of Delaware. We lost a few transceivers this way once. Lightning is funny stuff, though; only three out of >15 went out, with no particular pattern to it. Fortunately, the new building did eventually go up and we moved back out of the gymnasium.... (And people wonder where I found time to work out :-) ) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
hack@merkin.cactus.org (Greg Hackney) (01/16/89)
>In article <13433@bellcore.bellcore.com> karn@jupiter..bellcore.com >(Phil R. Karn) writes: >>Your bliss may end the next time you have a nearby lightning strike. For a >>few microseconds, you may find yourself with a 10kv potential difference >>between your building grounds. Ask the network people at the University >>of Delaware. We ran fiber optics cables between the 15th floor of one downtown building, and the 6th floor of another one a block away. Works well. -- Greg