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- From: floyd@polarnet.com (Floyd Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.telecom.tech
- Subject: Re: Making a RJ11 "busy" plug
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 07:04:02 GMT
- Organization: __________
- Message-ID: <4jg212$16a@news2.cais.com>
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-
- Algorist@dev-com.com wrote:
- >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.
-
- Others have posted the voltages and currents possible on a loop.
- If your loop has less than a couple hundred ohms in it, that
- 220-ohm 1/2 watt resistor might have to dissipate anything from
- about 1/4 watt (loop current limited at 35ma) up to 1 and 3/4 watt
- (current loop limited at 90ma), which is well over three times
- what it is rated at.
-
- Since most of the times that I busy a line I'm within a few feet
- literally of the loop current source, that would literally smoke
- every time I ever use it (we commonly see 60ma loop current both
- from our own switches and from the local LEC).
-
- Of course if you can always be sure that your mileage will indeed
- vary... (but it is still poor engineering).
-
- Floyd
-
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- Floyd L. Davidson Salcha, Alaska floyd@tanana.polarnet.com
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