On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:18 +0000, Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> >The main reason this is probably failing is the capacitance
> >of the cable is out of the spec if I2C.
> 
> The solution to that is to run the clock slower. I have had I2C clocked at 
> 10kHz to get around problems in an opto-isolated bus I used.

Absolutely. I once had an I2C bus running about 15 meters. Clocked it at
about 1kHz. It wasn't perfect but it did work well enough for my
purposes.

TTYL

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