Date   : Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:36:47 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Econet Boxes (again)

In article <7.0.1.0.2.20060711200540.03a34a00@...>, Joel Rowbottom
<joel@...> writes

>Heh. I went to Maplin today and the look on the face of the droid 
>behind the counter when I asked what the capacitance on X piece of cable was...

:-)

If you were asking because you wanted to get hold of cable to install
your own Econet, it'll work fine with standard Cat5 UTP (twisted pair
Ethernet) cable.  There's no shield, but the differential pairs used in
Econet mean it's fairly immune to interference anyway.

Use the orange and green pairs for DATA+/- and CLOCK+/- and the brown
pair for 0v.

Cat5 is also a hell of a lot easier to install than the "proper" cable.

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