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  1. #1
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    Question Phone transformer? What's this?

    Has anyone seen these and what are they? The little black box is about 1 1/2" x 3" x 1/2" thick. The aluminum enclosure is about 2" x 4" x 10". I advised for them to be removed. 1950's vintage home. Thanks Joe

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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Old telco demarc for POTS line. Why tell them to remove phone line equipment?


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dom D'Agostino View Post
    Old telco demarc for POTS line. Why tell them to remove phone line equipment?
    You talk like a splicing tech.
    Spent a little time in Local 21 myself.


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    With the big ground cable does the demarc also function as a lightning arrestor?


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Rick Bunzel View Post
    With the big ground cable does the demarc also function as a lightning arrestor?


    //Rick

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    No ,they need to be grounded also.


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Around here, the old posts are used for terminals for attaching the new landlines. For some reason, the guys that install telephones in old houses really like those old transformer blocks.

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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    It is just a old style terminal block used at at the demarc point. You see where drop wire (authority wire from the street) meets the interior wire (house wire).

    Surely not a transformer.

    Thanks,
    Mike.


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Thanks to you all. Glad that it is what I suspected. My reason for suggesting removal was because the cover was not secured and I thought there was potential for hot wires to arc against the aluminum cover. I'm relatively new and just haven't seen it all and I expect I never will. The client was not to concerned about using or having a landline anyways.


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Joe,
    Do you know how much voltage / amperage the line carries?


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    No Gary I don't. Did not measure. I did read somewhere that it's about 48 VDC and probably low amperage.


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    Default Re: Phone transformer? What's this?

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Borkowski View Post
    No Gary I don't. Did not measure. I did read somewhere that it's about 48 VDC and probably low amperage.
    48 VDC and 90 VAC (Ringing Signal).


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