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The LOD/H Technical Journal, Issue #3:
File 08 of 11
Coin Service, The
Central Office, and You
by
Phase Jitter
Legion of Doom!
In this file I will attempt to
give a basic overview of how various
central offices handle coin service.
If you feel your interest grows due to
this file there are other good
technical documents about coin
service, i.e.
Bell System Practices, CDs, PDs ect..
Coin service is differentiated
from other services by a special class
of
service. All switching systems give
-48 volt battery toward the coin phone
on
the ring side of the line. Coin-First
lines have an open TIP during a normal
receiver-on-hook condition. When a
line goes off hook the central office
takes no action and in fact can not
detect the off hook condition due to
the
line's conditioning-for-ground start.
When the customer deposits money the
coin ground is extended to the ring
side of the line. The ground signals
the
line equipment in the central office
as a to give a dial tone.
Dial-Tone First offices give both
the battery and ground to the coin
station, thus providing a dial tone
equivalent to a POTS phone. All coin
service is super current sensitive.
(The central office must give at least
23
milliamps of line current and 41
milliamps of coin control current to
the
farthest coin station.)
The switching systems differ in
the method which calls are handled.
No. 5 Crossbar
The No. 5 crossbar coin-first
offices must have a dual wound line
relay
with both windings in series when
dealing with a coin first situation.
If any
Coin-First lines are served in a No. 5
crossbar office the originating
registers must be able to desensitize
the (pulsing) L relay by providing a
resistive ground throgh its tertiary
winding via the coin class of service
relay.
Crossbar offices can give coin
return from Originating Registers,
TSPS/Cordboard trunks, Ring and Tone
trunks, Announcement trunks, and Coin
Supervisory circuits. Coin collect
current is only given through
TSPS/Cordboard trunks and Coin
Supervisory circuits. The only
circuit that
can handle a stuck coin test is the
coin supervisory circuit.
Crossbar offices handle coin
actions on locally completed calls in
the
coin supervisory circuit (CS). All
trunks must have access to the CS
circuit
or use coin junctors or coin 1A0
trunks that have such access. The use
of
coin junctors or coin 1A0 trunks
elimnate the need for other trunks to
be hard
wired to the Coin Supervisory Link.
When the trunk's supervisory relays
show
a coin action is needed the trunk
searches for an idle Coin Supervisory
Circuit through the Coin Supervisory
Link. The bridged connection allows
the
Coin Supervisory Circuit to give the
proper collect or return current toward
the coin telephone and test to see if
the action was successful.
Crossbar offices handle coin
actions required by DDD calls or TSPS
operators in the No. 5 crossbar TSPS
trunk. The TSPS base unit signals the
No. 5 office by either frequencies or
multiwinks. The No. 5 office receives
these signals and the trunk applies
one pulse of coin collect or return or
ring back. The No. 5 TSPS trunk dose
not make a test to see if the required
coin action is successful. If the
coin is still present the call is
dropped
and the coin remains in the trap.
ESS
ESS offices provide all coin
control actions from the Coin Control
Circuit. The Coin Control Circuit is
switched to a customers line under
program control. The Coin Control
Circuits always make a stuck coin test
at
the end of a call.
ESS offices handle coin actions
required by DDD or TSPS operators by
scanning the TSPS trunk looking for
any control signals from the TSPS base
unit. When the ESS office sees a
request on the TSPS trunk the ESS
office
opens the talking path and attaches a
multifrequency (MF) reciever. The MF
reciever looks at the tones being sent
from the TSPS base unit transmitter and
checks if the signal requested is a
coin collect, coin return, ring back,
or
operator attached.
Dial-Tone First (DTF) offices not
equipped with expanded In-Band
Signaling give +48V talk battery
during operator attached and 48V talk
batttery during the rest of the call.
If the TSPS signals for coin return the
ESS office will open the talk path
again, release the MF receiver and
switch
the line to the Coin Control Circuit
which applies -130V coin return
potential. After the coin control
function is finished the system will
make
on recycle attempt if the coin ground
is still present.
Local calls are handled within
the ESS machine. When a coin control
function is required the program
momentarily opens the talk path and
switches
the line to a Coin Control C cuit
which applies the required current.
Step By Step
Coin lines in a Step By Step area
are served on dedicated Line Finder
groups. The Line Finders are
hardwired to a coin box trunk and then
cabled to
a first selector appearance.
Step By Step offices can give
coin return from coin box trunks,
TSPS/Cordboard trunks, and other
miscellaneous trunks. (My knowledge of
Step
By Step is vague, it's kind of like
trying to research dinosaurs.)
Step By Step offices handle coin
actions on local calls in the coin box
trunks. The coin box trunk applies
the coin control current through the
winding of a relay to the coin station
hopper trigger ground. When the coin
station ground disappears, the coin
box trunk relay releases and allows the
connection to restore to normal. Some
Step By Step offices have a timed
release circuit that will time out
after about eight attempts of coin
control
action, peg the stuck coin register,
then release. If the timed release
circuit is not provided and a coin
ground can not be removed, the circuit
must
be manually released.
Step By Step offices handle coin
actions required by DDD calls or TSPS
operators in the Step By Step TSPS
trunk. The TSPS base unit signals the
Step
office by either frequencies or
multiwinks. The Step office trunk
recicves
these signals and trunk applies one
pulse of coin collect, coin return or
ring
back. The trunk does not make a test
to see if the action was successful.
If a DDD call was completed to a
busy number the Step By Step TSPS trunk
will apply one quick pu e of coin
return toward the coin station, then
the
coin box will check to see if the coin
ground has disappeared. If the ground
is still present the coin box trunk
will repeat the attempt to collect the
coin.
If you have any further questions
about how the central office handles
coin service or about coin service in
general, I can be reached via E-mail on
The Phoenix Project at 512/441-3088.
Oct 1988 - Phase
Jitter....Legion of Doom/Hackers!
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