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- From: William.Degnan@mdf.FidoNet.Org (William Degnan)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Question About PBX Phone
- Message-ID: <telecom12.684.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 13:03:15 GMT
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- On <Aug 30 00:44> UUCP (Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>) writes to
- All:
-
- > The worst case is, as was mentioned recently, if a Princess phone with
- > lighted dial was installed at one time, and the dial light transformer
- > is still connected to the second pair. Then you may have a fire. You
- > could easily disconnect and tape the red/black leads inside the phone
- > to be safe.
-
- If plugged into a two-line jack (ala RJ-14) it could short line two when
- the set is off hook.
-
- But red/black? Wouldn't yellow/black achieve the same purpose but
- allow the set to be used?
-
-
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