Gary and John - phone question.

Gary and John,
Saturday our alarm at the plant took a major hit that blew the mother board. Our alarm guy who has been around for many years feels it came off our line 2 copper pair. He was telling me of a practice that the phone company uses to "zap" the lines. The way he described it sounded to me like it was "meggering" or at least a high voltage method of "clearing a line". Is there a practice like this??? We have been having issues at the plant for about a week previous so AT&T has been around quite a bit. The AT&T tech showed up today and it was funny that he tested the #2 line and it was good. Maybe the repair was done before he showed up!!!

     John is out of touch this week Pete....work camp with the kids and no phones or CCF!!

AirTique98 wrote:       John is out of touch this week Pete....work camp with the kids and no phones or CCF!!

Hi Bill good to see your keeping an eye on us. Maybe he can't talk to Pete but he must have sneaked away and called me to tell me about Pete's post. He reminded me about a test set we used to work on lead cable, we called it a breakdown here but John called it a hotbox. Basically you would strap a pair at one end go to the other end and set it up.Where the pair was damaged or wet it would actually weld the pairs together.Then you could get an approx footage to the weld. You would then use the tone function and then using a "shoe" which looked alot like a depth finder transducer which would mount on a layup stick so you could stand on the ground,you would walk along listening for where your tone stopped. The last time we needed one,it took most of the day to track one down and when they did no one had the special battries for it either.There used to be one on every repair truck and were only supposed to be used on lead. I hear Uverse will not work on lead so it has been being replaced anyway. Rockford has ALOT of lead cable and not a single dime has been spent there for uverse. I do remember one being used on a pop machine that would always steel your money we got a new machine after that.

PS Pete if your talking about a regular phone line and are using a dial up alarm for ie breakins my 1st post would the correct reply. Either way what alarm guy said is not really used anymore,sort of like an old mechanical switch co vs a digital switch co,sure they are out there but not here in the "big city"