T&RNo telephone ( operator ) jokes please.........
There’s a couple.
T&RNo telephone ( operator ) jokes please.........
I had identified on a number of occasions that some simply did not work on 37.5V systems due to the lack of line current. The loop resistance was low enough that there may only be a volt or two across the tele. It was enough of a problem that the company built test adapters, to insert between the socket and the tele with 2 4mm sockets for a meter and also a test button which placed a resister across the line in lieu of the tele socket, very crude affairs built into a line jack.Old phones work quite happily ( speech ) with 9 volts on the A B pair.
The joke was: I/we used to hate going into the switch room due to the smell of 50 or more women wearing different combinations of shampoo/deodorant /perfume etc. To this day I think it's what triggered my first migrain.T&R
There’s a couple.
I feel like that may be true sometimes.Wow! You were around in the 700's??
The loop resistance was low enough that there may only be a volt or two across the tele.
Old phones work quite happily ( speech ) with 9 volts on the A B pair.
I had identified on a number of occasions that some simply did not work on 37.5V systems due to the lack of line current. The loop resistance was low enough that there may only be a volt or two across the tele. It was enough of a problem that the company built test adapters, to insert between the socket and the tele with 2 4mm sockets for a meter and also a test button which placed a resister across the line in lieu of the tele socket, very crude affairs built into a line jack..
With modern systems where line current is controlled by the line card in the exchange. With a high resistance loop the large voltage drop along the line to the Off Hook phone could result in there being insufficient voltage for the phone to work.
Back to the old days when the exchange could supply 96 milli-amps and the phone regulated the current it took when Off Hook
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So your entire REN allowance gone in one phone.700 type tele were the original bells had 1000Ω bells (REN4)
Yes but these phones were made at a time when extensions bells were wired in series, officially 5 maximum, later versions of the phone had 4KΩ bells (REN1) to use with PSTN system.So your entire REN allowance gone in one phone.
Brilliant.
If fact phones with 1KΩ bells were around before the term REN was invented.Yes but these phones were made at a time when extensions bells were wired in series, officially 5 maximum, later versions of the phone had 4KΩ bells (REN1) to use with PSTN system.
No, as explained, back in those days the bells were wired in series - so 2 bells makes 2k, 3 bells make 3k and so on. If you had plug in phones, it was a multipole jack (I think I have one or two still lying around the junk box) which included a switch to short out the bell contacts when the plug was removed. The phone needed 4 wires - the A&B connections for the phone and 2 more for the bell, with teh latter 2 being shorted in the socket when the plug is removed.So your entire REN allowance gone in one phone.
I've just brought a flat...
I think the phone line is still active as I've received bills from BT in the mail for the former owner...
Great. So now, if you haven’t done so already, you need to get a contract with BT for telephone service.
If you already have, then report it as a fault.
you need to get a contract with BT for telephone service.
If you already have, then report it as a fault.
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