"Alan B. Pearce" wrote:
>
> >>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).
> ><snip>
> >
> >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.

That would definately cause problems over long runs.

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