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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:20:29 GMT
- From: kah005@acad.drake.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Lightning Protection on Telephone Lines
- Message-ID: <telecom12.867.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 867, Message 2 of 6
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- In article <telecom12.850.4@eecs.nwu.edu>, rgt@beta.lanl.gov (Richard
- Thomsen) writes:
-
- > I live in the mountains, where lightning and my location are
- > synonymous. I have lost telephone equipment several times. Once,
- > about three feet of my telephone cord exploded, separating the wires
- > in the modular cable, and removing the copper in one wire. (It arced
- > to my X-10 controller, which did not do so well with the arc. There
- > was a black spot inside where the circuit board said "F1" should be :-)).
-
- > Does anyone know where I can get some *good* gas discharge tubes or
- > any other suggestions for protecting my telephone wiring? I live in
- > Contel (now GTE) area, so I am not sure how much good it would do to
- > call them. Other people in my area have come home to find pieces of
- > telephone all over their living room, so this is not an isolated
- > situation up here.
-
- Well, this may be an expensive option, but may get GTE's attention:
-
- GTE will be more than happy to RENT you telephone equipment and
- provide an inside wire maintainance agreement. That way, nothing is
- your problem. Every month, you will bring your melted phones in for
- exchange, and the maintainance agreement should cover jacks and such.
-
- Just a thought ...
-
-
- Kris Harris - P.O. Box 2410 - Des Moines, Iowa 50311-0410 - +1 515 254-2117
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