Re: [casper] fast serial communications: orientation to F-O options

2008-08-21 Thread William Chauncey Barott
Matt, Since you invoked my name here, I'll summarize my experiences. The 3m copper links from the iBobs to the BEE2 are completely unacceptable with even Gore cables. My goal is to entirely eliminate 3m copper from the ATA beamformer. Your number of 1 failure per hour is on the good side. I

Re: [casper] fast serial communications: orientation to F-O options

2008-08-21 Thread Matt Dexter
Thanks Billy. Very helpful as I obviously didn't have the complete status. Hope you don't mind too much I dragged you into this discussion Matt On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, William Chauncey Barott wrote: Matt, Since you invoked my name here, I'll summarize my experiences. The 3m copper links from

Re: [casper] fast serial communications: orientation to F-O options

2008-08-21 Thread William Chauncey Barott
No problem at all, always glad to help... Knowing how frustrating this can be first-hand, I'd like to do what I can so nobody else has to go through those link problems. Billy -Original Message- From: Matt Dexter [mailto:mdex...@berkeley.edu] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 5:08 PM To: