"Gray Shockley" wrote in message
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Frank, I don't know if this is related whatsoever 'cuz I, too, know
nothing
about BPL.

When I was in college in the mid 60's, the campus radio station used the
campus power lines rather than a RF transmitter to broadcast.

The main reason I remember it was that there would occasionally be
problems
with the signal over power lines (but not the power per se) and soime
dorms
could get the station and some - usually one or two - would be cut off for
a
day or two.

I'm not sure there is any relationship; just thought I'd throw this up
bwg.



Gray Shockley
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Entropy Maintenance Technician
Tao Chemical Company
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http://www.cybercoffee.org/
Vicksburg, Mississippi US




Reliability is very much related in the general sense that BPL is a largely
unproven technology.

I'd like to know how these transformer bypasses will handle multiple
lightning hits. The pole tranformer gives a bit of lightning surge
protection, and I'd hope the bypassed transformers would be at least as
good.

Frank Dresser