Re: Something went Bad Wrong!

["Robert L Bass" <RobertLBass@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"RockyTSquirrel" <gafa_usa@/nospam/hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:W9g9j.235715$Xa3.38019@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> think thats odd  try this one.
> had a customer with a grounded telephone ckt.
> L1 to L2 ie.. red to green  had 49.5 vdc

That's about what you'd expect to get.  Anywhere from 48 to 51 VDC is
normal with no phones off the hook.

> red to ground  had 53.5 vdc
> green to ground  had 35.4 vdc

I'm not sure what the potential to earth ground is supposed to be.

> had 60 cycle hum on audio of loop...

Probably induction from nearby 110VAC wires.

> when ringing ckt had  110 vac red to green..

The last time I checked ring voltage was around 90 VAC.  I don't know
if that's universal or just what SNET was using in CT.

> Telephone guy (AT&T / Bellsouth) said there wasn't anything wrong
> with the ckt..  (to quote him  he had over 46 vdc on the pair  so
> nothing could be wrong)

Telco Idiots are notorious for blindly going by a single reading
rather than trying to resolve problems.

> the best part was that the distance from the customer to the
> telephone switchframe was apx. 125 feet. however the line had 3
> (get that) three splices in the overhead wire...

Nothing telco surprises me any more.  When they were installing the
line in our new (to us) home/office in CT many years ago I had
ordered a 100-pair drop because, according to the telco rep, that was
the next size up from a 12-pair and we already had 12 lines.
Engineering came out a month before and surveyed the lines.  They
assured me all was fine -- there were plenty of available circuits.

On the appointed day I showed up early with a thermos of hot coffee
to await the telco installers.  They arrived in two separate trucks.
One guy asked the other, "Did you bring the spool?"  The second said,
"I thought you were bringing it."  They decided that instead of
driving back to their office they could use a spare spool from behind
the nearest CO that had "plenty" of cable on it.  They spent half the
morning pulling the cable from several poles away, over to the house.
Sure enough, it was about 20 feet short.  They then drove to anouther
CO, got another spool and spent the next few hours doing an aerial
splice.

Later in the afternoon they told me they would have to come back
another day because there wasn't a hole in the wall through which to
run the cable.  They said they were'nt allowed to make any holes.  My
trusty Bosch drill took care of that.

> to my knowledge  to this day  the phone company hasn't fixed the
> grounds. (been 4 years)

Sounds typical...  :^)

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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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