>This paragraph explicitly cites a "steel central member" which is likely
>for tensile strength.
Surge protection or lightning protection?
I expect your connection will have enough insulation to protect against
surges. Any metal armor or support wire isn't going to be directly
connected to you
how big is this surge protector. I wanted one for my factory, but just did not
have enough money to do a real job.
You should also worry about a "neutral" protector or notifier. the neural in
my house failed between house and street, and in house voltage ran up to 180 or
200 or so. not a sur
A quotation from the second citation:
"The modular design of loose-tube cables typically holds up to 12 fibers per
buffer tube with a maximum per cable fiber count of more than 200 fibers.
Loose-tube cables can be all-dielectric or optionally armored. The modular
buffer-tube design permits easy
Google "fiber optic cable" or read:
www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm
www.arcelect.com/fibercable.htm
Do you know the actual construction of the Fios cable? While the data
transmission medium is glass fiber, there may well be a metal wire or jacket
component for tensile strength. If t
At 06:13 PM 11/19/2007, Michel Lowe wrote:
>That's affirmative. FiOS is safer from a lightning strike/surge point of
>view since, as you say, all it is sending is light. Unlike the copper wires
>it replaces the transmission medium does not conduct electricity.
>-Mike
>
>__
>Mich
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> I'm no comms engineer, bu
I'm no comms engineer, but I believe that FIOS, being glass fiber, has no
conducting material to bring any kind of electricity into the house. It should
be all blasts of light.
Dan
>>> K Swab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/19/2007 4:02 PM >>>
I just installed Verizon's FIOS service for both my
phone
I just installed Verizon's FIOS service for both my
phone and video service. The CATV wire and the two
copper telephone lines I had coming to my house have
been removed. I am having a whole house surge
protector installed to protect my electrical service.
Do I need to worry about electrical surg
