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Article #6210Re: Phone in use light - help!?
From: Jon Sreekanth
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:59
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:59
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In article <1992Aug22.194629.9065@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
Build mine instead (forthcoming in Popular Electronics) -- its impedance
across the line is 66 megohms, well above the 0.7 megohm minimum.
^^^^
As far as I remember, FCC 68 limits on hook DC resistance to 5M minimum,
below 100V. Maybe the GTE test procedure was to send out a repair person
when they found less than .7M, that's all.
/ Jon Sreekanth
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!world!jon_sree From: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) Subject: Re: Phone in use light - help!? In-Reply-To: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu's message of 22 Aug 92 19:46:29 GMT Message-ID: <JON_SREE.92Aug23215911@world.std.com> Sender: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth) Organization: The World References: <tbp.714023837@fig> <17AUG92.09434858@wl.aecl.ca> <1992Aug21.212309.22093@serval.net.wsu.edu> <1992Aug22.194629.9065@athena.cs.uga.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1992 02:59:11 GMT Lines: 15