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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote:

w_tom wrote:

Do you write this drivel every time, or do you copy and past it?
Once again, your knowledge of a number of systems is evident. I have
seen a lot of damaged telco equipment. In fact, I've been in the
Sprint warehouse in Eustis, Florida where they had skids full of
lightning damaged circuit boards being sold as scrap. If the wire is
never damaged, why do they build their plant with extra pairs? Those
pairs are exempt from tariffs, as long as they are only used to
replace a damaged pair. I lost my underground phone line when
lighting struck an old barn on our property. We had a light out
there, so lightning got into our electrical service. Everything
critical was on plug in MOV protectors and they all survived. The
lightning jumped from the underground power line to Sprint's buried
line which they had installed a few inches from the existing buried
power line. The pair of wires was vaporized to the street which was
over a mile. It wiped out the line card in the pedestal, and the
pair back to the CO was damaged. All 16 customers fed by that pair
had excessive noise on their phones so they had to switch to one of
the spare pairs. That lightning strike did thousands of dollars
worth of damage to their equipment, and took weeks to fix. Now, tell
us again that Telcos don't suffer lightning damage.

He is a well know Troll and been around for years. He is in just about
any new group that has to do with electronics or electricity or phones.
A Google search will show he infests many news groups. Always the same
line of crap. A real nut case.

Do yourself a big favor and drop kick him into the kill file.

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Telamon
Ventura, California