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From: "Jeroen van Aart" <jeroen@mompl.net>
I don't doubt it. However my practical experience is such that 100% of the time (I lost count after 20 or so, in a decade) I experienced a power failure the phone would still work. I am sure I am not the only one.
Sure. (We're not really having this conversation here, are we? :-) Copper POTS service is centrally powered from a battery plant in the wire center, which is generally something like -52V nominal at 6000-8000ADC continuous. If you get a tool across those busbars uninsulated, it will flash into plasma much faster than you can blink; this happened at SPBGFLXA89H in the... mid to late 80s? I no longer remember the details, but the guy couldn't hear for several days, and the *entire* CO -- 30klines of GTD-5 and 100klines of 5E Remote -- was No Dial Tone for at least 12 hours while they cleaned it up; SPPD and PCSO were stationed on streetcorners to take emergency reports. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274