Grounding

Started by Emax, Apr 11 2007 06:14 AM

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#1 Emax

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Posted 11 April 2007 - 06:14 AM

A Texas farm wife called the local phone company to report her telephone
failed to ring when her friends called - and that on the few occasions,
when it did ring, her dog always moaned right before the phone rang. The
telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog
or senile lady.

He climbed a telephone pole, hooked in his test set, and dialed the
subscriber's house. The phone didn't ring right away, but then the
dog moaned and the telephone began to ring. Climbing down from the pole,
the telephone repairman found:

1. The dog was tied to the telephone system's ground wire with a steel
chain and collar.

2. The wire connection to the ground rod was loose .

3. The dog was receiving 90 volts of signaling current when the number was
called.

4. After a couple of jolts, the dog would start moaning and then urinate.

5. The wet ground would complete the circuit via the stream, thus causing the phone to
ring.

This demonstrates that some problems CAN be fixed by just pissing and moaning.

Thanx to Taylor Wilkey for this one

This post has been edited by Emax: 11 April 2007 - 06:55 AM

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou