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+rep TheCh3f......your the man.....

btw I've been to Spokane, WA I like your city.....LOL.....sorry was looking at your info here and saw where you live...and had to think for a min...."I'VE BEEN THERE!!!" used to drive semi....

so....15 to 20 ft not unheard of for optical connection?

thanks again!!!

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15m easy... and even more depending on other factors

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Optical technology

A fiber-optic cable is made up of 100 or more incredily thin strands of glass or plastic known as optical fibers. Each one is less than a tenth as thick as a human hair and can carry 10 million telephone calls.

Fiber-optic cables carry information between two places using entirely optical (light-based) technology. Suppose you wanted to send information from your computer to a friend’s house down the street using fiber optics. You could hook your computer up to a laser, which would convert electrical information from the computer into a series of light pulses. Then you’d fire the laser down the fiber-optic cable. After travelling down the cable, the light beams would emerge at the other end. Your friend would need a photocell (light-detecting component) to turn the pulses of light back into electrical information his or her computer could understand. So the whole apparatus would be like a really neat, hi-tech version of the kind of telephone you can make out of two baked-bean cans and a length of string!
How fiber-optics works

Light travels down a fiber-optic cable by bouncing repeatedly off the walls. Each tiny photon (particle of light) bounces down the pipe like a bobsleigh going down an ice run. Now you might expect a beam of light, travelling in a clear glass pipe, simply to leak out of the edges. But if light hits glass at a really shallow angle (less than 42 degrees), it reflects back in again—as though the glass were really a mirror. This phenomenon is called total internal reflection. It's one of the things that keeps light inside the pipe.

The other thing that keeps light in the pipe is the structure of the cable, which is made up of two separate parts. The main part of the cable—in the middle—is called the core. The light travels through the core of the cable. Wrapped around the outside of the core is another layer of glass called the cladding. The cladding’s job is to keep the light signals inside the core. It can do this because it is made of a different type of glass to the core. (More technically, the cladding has a higher refractive index than the core. Light travels slower in the cladding than in the core. Any light that tries to leak into the cladding tends to bend back inside the core.)

Optical fibers carry light signals down them in "modes." A mode is the path that a light beam follows down the fiber. One mode is simply to go straight down the middle of the fiber. Another is to bounce down the fiber at a shallow angle. Other modes involve bouncing down the fiber at other angles, more or less steep.

LiNERROR

my ancient toshiba laptop has a combo out on the line out... can use an analog 3.5mm or an optical toslink/spdif cable like this


if you see a red light in the jack, you've got an optical link... if not, it's just a mis-labeled bracket... and it's just an digital jack that uses the 3.5mm plug on one side instead of RCA...

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Benny99

http://www.hometheatre.net.au/toslink_adaptor_cable.htm

There is your 3.5 to Optical Digital Cable.

Yes it uses your Flexijack output .

However that place is in aus but just look for a similar cable your bound to find it in the USA.

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spice003

this guy has very good prices.

i actually own this one.