Re: 1-wire CAT5

["Frank Mc Alinden" <frankmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Glen

Maybe have a look at Simons  1 wire hub....
http://www.simat.enta.net/1wirehub.html

Got a couple of these myself but never got round to trying to control it
via
a pic micro....

HTH
Frank

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sullivan, Glenn" <gsullivan@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2005 1:03 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] 1-wire CAT5


> Those of you with one wire networks attached to some of your
structured
> cabling...
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> 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...
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> 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...
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> TIA,
>
> Glenn Sullivan, MCSE+I  MCDBA
> David Clark Company Inc.
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