RE: Re: Supplier for BT style ADSL linebox

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

for you to move yours ..... NO

for me to move mine ....YES :-)

...but dont worry about it. There are no records of where in the property
it
was installed and as long as the correct cable and colour scheme are used,
no-one would ever know.

The worst you could do in just moving the socket would be to mess up your
phone line at which point BT will come round and fix it....then present you
with a bill for customer damage.

The real worry as far a BT or any other Telco are concerned, comes from
unapproved or customer modified equipment being connected to lines. With
much telecoms equipment being mains powered there is a real danger of
feeding mains voltage down the telephone line and causing injury or death
to
engineers working on the lines or other customers.

I have been in exchanges and seen the "Mains" alarm light on the
panel
indicating that someones line is in contact with mains voltage. Its then a
case of rubber gloves to pull the line fuses to isolate that line from the
exchange followed by a visit to the customer to remove whatever caused the
problem.

In this case, the fault was a faulty mains earth to the building. A fault
on
the ring main which should have blown the mains fuse couldnt because of the
high resistance earth feeding the building. This resulted in the earth to
the building and all PME connected metalwork inside the building rising to
about 90V above earth potential. Because the the phone system had lightning
protection designed to clamp the lines to earth in the event of surges
above
60V, the lightning protection was back feeding the high voltage on the
earth
onto the telephone lines. Thankfully no one was hurt but it did take some
time to find and rectify the fault.

Keith

www.diyha.co.uk
www.kat5.tv


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gale [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
>
> I don't think I need the ADSL internal extension bit as I
> moved the master socket up to Node0 anyway - is that legal?  ;)
>
> Paul.


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