RE: 1-wire CAT5

["John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How I did 1-wire over CAT5:

Blue for data
Orange 5+
Green - Ground

I used a patch panel and wired each colour to the white/colour of the
next port along
So Blue port 1 was wired to white/blue port 2, with me?
And Green port 1 to white/green port 2 and so on
And Orange port 1 to white/orange port 2 etc

Then at the sensor end, wired both blue and white/blue together.

So if you draw it out, you end up with a sequential 1-wire network.

If this does not make sense, I could draw it out and fax it over



-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Sullivan, Glenn
Sent: 01 July 2005 16:03
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] 1-wire CAT5


Those of you with one wire networks attached to some of your structured
cabling...

How do you do it?  i.e., is there some kind of standard for what pairs
to use for what?  I lean towards using the brown pair for a power bus,
because I believe that the brown pair (in the "B" standard of
termination) is unused in 10/100 networking, which would minimize the
risk of one of my NICs getting a shock from being plugged into the wrong
port...

And how do you interconnect them?  It seems that a patch panel with a
bunch of bridged ports would work, but is not recommended by Dallas
without adding switching to only activate one segment at a time...

TIA,

Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
David Clark Company Inc.