Post
Topic
Board Mining support
"Never leave your ethernet cables like that"
by
QuiveringGibbage
on 31/05/2014, 01:34:24 UTC
This thread is for the purpose of educating and disseminating information to combat the dubious or false information spread by ill inform and lazy posters (namely tzortz).

It is acceptable to coil Ethernet cables when they are too long for a run.
Coiling Ethernet cables will NOT create inductive currents that can blow devices on both ends of your cable.

It was suggested to me here:
latest addition to the gallery...
Spondoolies SP10 Dawson 1.4THs x 2 - princeps & linguaefelis
Full gallery here: http://imgur.com/a/mRbMZ#ZZd203T
(http://i.imgur.com/SS8NCCV.jpg)
Say HASH!!
QG
Never leave your ethernet cables like that.
and carried on with:
It creates a coil like that, and inductive currents can blow both ends. I mean the miner controller + the rooter.
I've done my Google-fu and cannot find anything to back up tzortz claim. Please prove me wrong.

QG