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- From: marc_k@escape.com (marc_k)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.dcom.telecom.tech
- Subject: Re: Making a RJ11 "busy" plug
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- Date: 3 Apr 1996 13:34:05 GMT
- Organization: Escape.Com Internet Access and Services
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- Steve Smith (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.
-
- : 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 ;-!
- : >
- : > --
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-
-
- As the line is current limited, a short is ok, but my understanding was
- that either a 470 ohm or a 680 ohm(470 ohm more common) across the line
- was the "official way, at least outside the CO environment(inside/plant,
- the rules may well differ).
-
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