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Mother Nature takes on UDS V.32.

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From: Jon Luckey
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:49
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The joys of living in florida!.

Last night a lightning strike took out two v.32 modems I had set
up in my house.  And yes, they were run through a lightning protector.
The strike also made my two line phone into a one line phone with
additional 2nd line force busy option, and changed one of my TVs
into a video (no sound) monitor.  Sigh.

Anyway, One of these modems is a prototype v.32 that Digicom made
for Ark Electronics.  The power transformer is dead.  The other
V.32 is a UDS V.3225.  It seems to almost completely work.  It
powers up, it can run an AT&T0 loopback with no problems.  An ATA
makes plenty of noise.  But when you do an ATDT, all I hear is 
static.  My guess is that one of the relays is toast.

I suspect that lightning came in the power.  took out the digicom,
the proceeded thru the phone lines to take out other stuff.

So now I need some questions answered.

1) Could UDS fix this modem for a reasonable price ( <$100 )
2) barring that, can I find replacements for the relays
   which are a type I've never seen before.  These are
   ETAL P1200's.  I suspect they are solid state relays
3) Does anyone know the pinout of the 10V 2 Amp AC power
   transformer used by the old 12"x12"x4" sized digicom
   V.32.  I have to see what happens if power is applied
   before seeing how damaged it is.

Any info people might have would be appriciated.
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From: luckey@rtfm.mlb.fl.us (Jon Luckey)
Subject: Mother Nature takes on UDS V.32.
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Summary: Impact of the forces of nature on a modem.
Keywords: zap
Organization: We don't need no stinkin' batches!
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 04:49:36 GMT
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