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- From: bruce@camb.com (Barton F. Bruce)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Ground start modems??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.233621.16@camb.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 03:36:20 GMT
- Article-I.D.: camb.1993Jan23.233621.16
- References: <727133832snx@crynwr.com>
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- Organization: Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc.
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- In article <727133832snx@crynwr.com>, nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson) writes:
- > Are there any modem manufacturers who make ground start modems? Is
- > there any way to fake it?
-
- Not sure why you want modems on ground start lines, but they will work
- fine for incoming traffic. Once the CO has seized the line to ring it,
- TIP will be grounded rather than floating.
-
- If you must dial out on them, can you dial through whatever PBX
- presumably is using them as trunks?
-
- If you MUST dial out on them, there are 2 types of vendors to check.
- First the telecoms types. Try Proctor, Melco, or Teltone. At least one of them
- probably makes something. Mitel may make an adapter, too, designed to let
- POTS phones without ground buttons make calls when a PBX is in powerfail
- transfer.
-
- The 2nd general sort of source to try is the burglar alarm industry. When they
- prempt an outside via an RJ31 jack, it may be a ground start trunk on a PBX,
- and they have little adapters so that a loop start device can pull dialtone.
-
- As a purely practical matter, if you can ground TIP for 2 seconds while you
- have closure through your modem to RING, you will probably have CO ground
- on TIP and dialtone when you let go. If you have a long loop, it might be better
- to ground RING, but there will be no current through the modem until
- you remove this ground, and that may be undesirable.
-
- If you do not need any current through the modem until you get dialtone,
- and want to be TIP vs RING insensitive, ground BOTH TIP and RING for 2 seconds
- with the modem 'off-hook' waiting to keep the loop closed. At the end of
- the 2 seconds, remove the grounds, and your modem should see a POTS
- offhook line with dialtone.
-
- The home-brew stuff is all un-FCC registered, of course.
-