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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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