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- From: jmiller@wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us (Jim Miller)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Having Problems With Dracon Butt Set
- Message-ID: <telecom12.906.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 19:05:19 GMT
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-
- Hi,
-
- My Dracon TS-21 butt set won't dial anymore. I am writing to the
- net to see if anyone else has had the same problem. The set works OK
- in all functions except the tone pad quit working.
-
- When the switch is set to pulse, the buttons do absolutely nothing
- -- no clicks, no audible noises on the line, nothing at all.
-
- On the tone setting, pressing a button seems to place a large load
- on the line. If you are listening to dial tone, the volume of the dial
- tone gets knocked down to the point that it is hard to hear. Once the
- button is released, dial tone comes back to normal level. No DTMF
- tones are generated at all.
-
- I have a theory regarding what might have happened. I was
- troubleshooting an installation that had two POTS lines which had
- become shorted together somewhere. I was clipping onto one line at the
- demarc and dialing the other with the butt set. Since the lines were
- shorted together, I could hear LOUD ringing voltage from the other
- line getting into the line I was clipped onto. I am guessing that some
- ring voltage got into the keypad while I was dialing, and fried the
- keypad, although I would think that the butt set would be protected
- internally from this with some type of clamping circuit.
-
- Maybe it just went bad, though. Anyhow, I need to find a repair
- source for this unit. If you know of a repair source for Harris-
- Dracon products, would you let me know who/where/etc?
-
- Thanks -- your help is very much appreciated.
-
-
- Jim Miller jmiller@wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us
-