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krw wrote: In article , says... krw wrote: Princess phones used the yellow green pair for the dial light. A transformer was hidden somewhere in teh house to supply the power (IIRC, a standard 24VAC door bell transformer, but it's been a lot of years). The lamp was on yellow & black. Red & Green are the pair to the CO. slap! There I was typing, looking at bud-'s post and *STILL* got the wires crossed. I *shoulda* had a V8. No big deal. Do you remember that wall wart being the first one recalled for being a fire hazard? -- http://improve-usenet.org/index.html Use any search engine other than Google till they stop polluting USENET with porn and junk commercial SPAM If you have broadband, your ISP may have a NNTP news server included in your account: http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm |
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"Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Do you remember that wall wart being the first one recalled for being a fire hazard? That was one of Western Electric's first uses of a third-party supplier. In this case, it was Ault Manufacturing. The Ault transformer recall was HUGE. There are still MANY Western Electric dial-light transformers in service to this day. Virtually all are powering NOTHING but have not been unplugged. -- JR |
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Jim Redelfs wrote: In article , "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Do you remember that wall wart being the first one recalled for being a fire hazard? That was one of Western Electric's first uses of a third-party supplier. In this case, it was Ault Manufacturing. The Ault transformer recall was HUGE. There are still MANY Western Electric dial-light transformers in service to this day. Virtually all are powering NOTHING but have not been unplugged. That is very easy to explain: "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in" with Lilly Tomlin as Ernestine, the telephone operator: "We're the phone company. We don't care, we don't have to." http://www.lilytomlin.com/charns/ernestine/quotes.htm http://www.lilytomlin.com/lily/lilygal/lilyswitchboard.html -- http://improve-usenet.org/index.html Use any search engine other than Google till they stop polluting USENET with porn and junk commercial SPAM If you have broadband, your ISP may have a NNTP news server included in your account: http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm |
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