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Optical cable to 3.5mm stereo jacks?
I'm completely unfamiliar with what optical cable is up to.
I'd like to electrically isolate a radio setup on one power main circuit, from a mixer board and computer on the opposite phase power main circuit. At the moment they're connected with 30 feet of regular audio cable and an isolation transformer. But the isolation transformer is no match for a lightning strike, and I thought optical cable would be, given that there would be about 30 feet of it. It would save be disconnecting it every time a lightning storm comes over. What do I need, to use optical cable to replace what at the moment terminates in conventional 3.5mm stereo jacks at each end? Or do I have to start with completely different equipment and meantime forget it. |
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Optical cable to 3.5mm stereo jacks?
Ron Hardin wrote: I'm completely unfamiliar with what optical cable is up to. I'd like to electrically isolate a radio setup on one power main circuit, from a mixer board and computer on the opposite phase power main circuit. At the moment they're connected with 30 feet of regular audio cable and an isolation transformer. But the isolation transformer is no match for a lightning strike, and I thought optical cable would be, given that there would be about 30 feet of it. It would save be disconnecting it every time a lightning storm comes over. What do I need, to use optical cable to replace what at the moment terminates in conventional 3.5mm stereo jacks at each end? Or do I have to start with completely different equipment and meantime forget it. Optical cables aren't designed to pass analogue audio so yes you need to consider another strategy. Graham |
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Optical cable to 3.5mm stereo jacks?
You need completely different equipment.
-- --DaveW "Ron Hardin" wrote in message ... I'm completely unfamiliar with what optical cable is up to. I'd like to electrically isolate a radio setup on one power main circuit, from a mixer board and computer on the opposite phase power main circuit. At the moment they're connected with 30 feet of regular audio cable and an isolation transformer. But the isolation transformer is no match for a lightning strike, and I thought optical cable would be, given that there would be about 30 feet of it. It would save be disconnecting it every time a lightning storm comes over. What do I need, to use optical cable to replace what at the moment terminates in conventional 3.5mm stereo jacks at each end? Or do I have to start with completely different equipment and meantime forget it. |
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Optical cable to 3.5mm stereo jacks?
DaveW said:
Or do I have to start with completely different equipment and meantime forget it. Have you thought about using an inline lightning arrestor? http://www.rflinx.com/products/lightning-arrestors/ -- Ken |
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