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- From: jlundgre@delta1.deltanet.com (John Lundgren)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.telecom.tech
- Subject: Re: Making a RJ11 "busy" plug
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- Date: 23 Mar 1996 23:27:16 GMT
- Organization: Delta Internet Services, Anaheim, CA
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- David Lesher (wb8foz@netcom.com) penned:
- : Stephen Satchell <satchell@accutek.com> writes:
-
- : >DON'T DO IT!
-
- : >Zero-ohm plugs make the telephone company very angry. Very angry indeed.
- : >Angry enough to disconnect your line as a "network hazard."
-
- : Stephen, I'd never argue with you on modem testing, but on this
- : point I will.
-
- : The line card in your CO switch is designed to limit the current it
- : can source to a safe value. (After all, shorted jumpers in the frame
- : are a non-infrequent event.) In fact, several of them attempt to keep
- : the loop current within a given range regardless of the load
- : resistance.
-
- : (If fact, that line card is designed to take all KINDS of abuse
- : without flinching. See the term BORSCH in TFM...)
-
- : Further, the local loop is itself resistive (and capacitive, of
- : course too). This further limits the current.
-
- : Here's the test. Take your DVM & apply it across the pair in the
- : 100ma range. Measure the current. Then place your 600 ohm resistor in
- : series. Does that 600 ohm make a drastic change in the current?
-
- : [Exercise for the student -- calculate the Norton & Thevenin <sp?>
- : equivalent circuits based on your tests...
-
- : Further student query: What current will cause the 600 ohm/0.5 watt
- : resistor to soon become a 100 megohm resistor?]
-
- : Just short the pair. I've been doing it for years & I still
- : have no criminal record ;-!
-
- I agree 100 percent.
-
- And the most stupid thing that he implies is that the telco can tell the
- difference between a short and another low ohm resistor. The fallacy here
- is that the subscriber loop between the short and the CO has a lot of
- resistance, say from a few hundred to over a thousand ohms. So the switch
- can't know if there is a short out there since it's swamped by the
- resistance of the line. The only possible way that the short could be
- found is by knowing how the circuit was built, so the resistance of the
- wire can be determined. And that resistance is dependent on the temp
- which is dependent on the time of day and year. So using anything other
- than a short is BAD ADVICE.
-
-
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