[AMPS] Relays hanging up
Tom Rauch
W8JI@contesting.com
Sat, 12 Aug 2000 08:14:20 -0400
> I was working at a telephonecompany once.
> We had a rubberhammer that was used to
> hit the relayracks with when we got too many
> complains about crosscoupled phonelines.
>
> When we did that we could hear virtuallu hundreds
> of relays clickking off held by residual magnetism.
Mechanical non-mercury wetted relays in a telephone switching
system?
What a system. No wonder the materials in the relay magnetic
parts were poor!
73, Tom W8JI
w8ji@contesting.com
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