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xsspup :blobhaj_hearttrans:

@devopscats if you're pushing that much light, that's concerning

devopscats

@xssfox guess its for measuring flux inductors rather than capacitors?

/dev/rdsk/c5t1d0s2

@devopscats anything can be a conductor is the voltage is high enough

Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@jpm @devopscats

If you're putting such a high voltage across a length of optic fibre that 4A (let alone 200A!) current flows… I do NOT want to be near it.

Edit: seems glass dielectric strength starts at 9.8MV/m… so in excess of 39.2MW of power dissipation for every metre of fibre. Yikes!

Lalit Patnaik

@devopscats "Our marketing team works independently of our technical team." #MarketingFail #Marketing

Delta Wye

@devopscats Wasn’t looking closely and I thought those were shielded conductors.

This is much worse.

Stanford

@devopscats Huh, the new power-over-fiber standard seems to be a huge upgrade ​:blobcat_googly_trash:​

Coral

@devopscats I'm extremely sorry to report mdpi.com/2304-6732/8/8/335 Power-Over-Fibre. Some tech can do 40W optical, and that's uhhh 470 gigawatts per m^2 of fibre core (hope you have low loss!)

Christian Berger DECT 2763

@devopscats Well I wouldn't touch such cables if there was a significant amount of current going through them.

Anthropy :verified_dragon:

@devopscats so this one above is obviously funnily wrong, BUT, I was surprised to find out the other day there are actually tools to check if there's light going through fibers and in which direction without unplugging them, they cost a fortune though

Blue and black Optical Fiber Identifier tool that clamps onto a fiber to check if there's light going through it. On the screen on the right it reads  "-17.78dBm, 1000hz", on the screen on the left it reads "850nm, -50dBm"
Kevin P. Fleming

@devopscats Super easy to build that product, it always says zero!

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

@devopscats alt text: promo image for a current clamp meter, with the meter being held next to some cables, but the cables aren't connected to anything and they're also fibre optic.

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