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- From: Steve Smith <Algorist@dev-com.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.telecom.tech
- Subject: Re: Making a RJ11 "busy" plug
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 19:32:36 -0700
- Organization: Algoristics
- Message-ID: <315B4BC4.9F5@dev-com.com>
- References: <4i4n3j$dgr@baloo.pipex-sa.net> <JBMokex.doho@delphi.com> <4iabts$nn9@raffles.technet.sg> <4iag3c$qam@icefog.polarnet.com> <314C26AB.3E3B@accutek.com> <wb8fozDoKxoy.HFE@netcom.com>
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- For the last several years, since 1982... I've used 220-ohm 1/2 watt
- resistors for busy-out plugs. I've NEVER experienced any problems.
- Some techs I've met -- just short the line. I was taught to use the
- 220-ohm method by AT&T Paradyne in 1982, and I've continued to use it
- ever since. And I stress... NEVER any problems whatsoever.
-
- So, you all can do what you like... but I vote for the resistor.
-
- Steve Smith
- Algoristics
- Network & Telecom Consulting
-
-
- David Lesher wrote:
- >
- > 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 ;-!
- >
- > --
- > A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
- > & no one will talk to a host that's close...........(v)301 56 LINUX
- > Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
- > is busy, hung or dead........vr vr vr vr.................20915-1433
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