Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mks!wheels@watmath.waterloo.edu (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Strange Phone Problem Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 89 16:54:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 15 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 183, message 7 of 10 In article ginosko!duane@oddjob.uucp (Andrew Duane) writes: >PROBLEM: the 2 AT&T phones suddenly and simulatenously lost their > ability to dial. Sounds to me like the line polarity has been reversed. Some phones have rectifiers so they don't care about polarity, but others can't hack it and the keypad shuts down. That would explain why two phones work but two don't. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043