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- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 92 00:26 GMT
- From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: What Does This "Western Electric" Box Do?
- Reply-To: John Higdon <john@zygot.ati.com>
- Message-ID: <telecom12.648.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
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- > But I have an AT&T Trimline phone, and its dial
- > still lights up just fine without the transformer plugged in.
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- The best thing you could do was to unplug it. Those little
- transformers were responsible for starting many fires. People would
- plug non-lighted-dial phone into the outlets and sometimes the
- transformer secondary would be shorted. These transformers have no
- thermal or over-current protection, so the frequent result was a nice
- cozy fire.
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- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 264 4115
- john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !
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-
- [Moderator's Note: Like the fires which had your home surrounded on
- three sides all day Thursday, eh? Best wishes from all of us here as
- you deal with Mother Nature there at the base of the mountain, John.
- Let us know everything is alright when the fires are extinquished. PAT]
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