>>Also CAN is not differential and it does not like
>> ground potentials and lots of noise (like running CAN cable parallel with
>> a mains extension cord for 10 meters or so).
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>
>Pure crap. It is differential and it handles transients faily well. I
>haven't had a single one blow up yet and I've seriously abused them.

This sounds like the original poster used CAN processor chips without the
interface driver chips.

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