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Electrically breaking a fiber connection?
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nfmax:
I am amazed by this discussion. Electrically operated fibre switches are a commodity item. Just buy one and drive it with a logic-level input. Who cares what the actual mechanism of operation is? As an added bonus, you can get them with jacketed fibre leads with he connector of your choice ready fitted.

It's like people discussing how to switch an electric current by pumping the air out of a jam jar with some bits from broken light bulbs in it, to make a thermionic valve. Sure, in principle it is possible, but why, for heaven's sake?
coppercone2:
uh because people will argue about relay choice here all day and quenching plasma arcs with jam jars is interesting?

and because the failure modes are different?
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