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Re: Anybody got a picture of a Load Coil ? I have seen load coils in what are called "load pots" both pole mounted and in utility vaults (manholes). Load Pots are usually hundreds of coils encased w/a cable tail. I'll upload a pic when I find some. |
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These are pole mounted and hold several thousand "load coils", These can also be found in manholes.
These are bad for HiCap-T1-ADSL ect...they must be reomved (de-loaded) from the copper pair before digital services can be used on the pair. There could be several "points" of load depending on how far the cable runs into the field.
There are in and out pairs in a load pot "tail"
CO-->Lode Splice-->Load Pot-->Load Splice-->Field |
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what happened to the one in the second pic? It looks very defunct. By the way, load coils probably screwed me over when I tried to get DSL a couple of years ago. D'oh! Eh, no big deal, I have cable now. woo hoo!
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what happened to the one in the second pic? It looks very defunct. By the way, load coils probably screwed me over when I tried to get DSL a couple of years ago. D'oh! Eh, no big deal, I have cable now. woo hoo!
It looks like it was removed from a splice on a cable run but no one ever removed it from the pole. That's a lead sheath too. Lead is toxic. If ingested.
ADSL pairs or any digital pair has to be "de-loaded" or it will not work. |
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Spotted those while I was in Las Vegas... must represent BBR where ever I go!  |
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Spotted those while I was in Las Vegas... must represent BBR where ever I go!
crap, if those are what load coils look like, then we have them in at least 2 places that I can think of. Our phone line probably passes through them, and that would explain why I could never get DSL. They probably didn't feel like routing our line past the coils.
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said by Oxygen:
Spotted those while I was in Las Vegas... must represent BBR where ever I go!
I don't think those are load coils, more likely some sort of active electronics like a T1 repeater. The covers are removable – only reason for that is to perform maintenance. |
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»www.charlesindustries.com/ciac5300.pdf |
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Those ARE "T1" repeater cases. They have a removable cover, which is always kept padlocked. They are removable to change out cards and or add/remove cards. Some cases are even pressurized.
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We call em lobster pots or doublers here on long island.They are indeed signal boosters for hdsl,t1's an what not.You can't run dsl's and t circuits through a load coil it destroys the signal.Usually they aren't that low to ground.The other two look like fiber splices. |
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No, we have one which is close by. It's probably 3' off of the ground. |
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