hub don't help?

2011/3/22 Nathan Hurst <n...@njhurst.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:53:06AM +0100, p4trykx wrote:
>> Dnia 23-03-2011 o 00:12:07 Mick Sulley <m...@sulley.info> napisa??(a):
>>
>> >  I have today connected the Gnd to the earth of the mains
>> > wiring at each relay box, and the system seems to be running fairly
>> > well.
>>
>> I'm not and expert but is it safe to connect 1-wire ground to earth
>> ground(yellow green cable)
>
> I would recommend against that.  Earth can have 10s of volts across
> it in reasonable failure modes, destroying your entire 1-wire bus.  It
> will also reduce noise immunity because you now have large loops
> possibly containing mains power through them and picking up RF from
> lightning, motor brush etc..
>
> Sadly this problem is the reason I no longer like 1-wire bus, they
> should have used differential signalling (AC supply with modulation
> like digitrack, for example).  The only work around I've found is to
> have isolated power to each unit (expensive).  A larger ground wire
> seems to eat into your signal distance (increased capacitance?).
>
> njh
>
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