At 10:33 AM 11/1/02 -0500, you wrote:
>And why ever would you want to avoid optical isolation in this application,
>unless you don't want it to last forever?

A bit of a funny comment, since opto-isolators are one of the few
solid-state components for which aging is an important engineering
consideration.

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