NEW CALLER ID CARDS 1

[fonegal]

The new Global caller Id cards seem to be defective.When inserted in place of a canadian manufactued caller id card it shorts out port 3 even with the power to the ksu turned off. help?

 

[curlycord]

Sounds defective....move it to another slot and see if it works in that slot as a test.

 

[telemarv]

Make sure you don't have a bent pin on the cards or in the slot on the KSU.

 

[rhowlett]

It also needs to be set via the dip switches for the correct format for Canada. (Not sure if same as US, which is the default)

 

[Arr]

Card comes default for NA standard. Good point about the dip switches though as they could have been changed somewhere along the way.

PhM

 

[wip]

Need to be sure you are plugged into a grounded circuit on these new Caller ID cards to work correctly....Check your circuit in which the system is plugged to is grounded properly.....

 

[curlycord]

fonegal has emailed me on this and says he has tried 7 different cards (same batch) and 7 KSU's, seems that 3 port was wired out as red/orange instead of white/slate on these cards.

 

[rhowlett]

Are you kidding me? The cards are going to the wrong pair on the amphenol? Now that's a big mistake!
Whoever figured that out deserves a pat on the back.

 

[telemarv]

Never seen this ampenols are hard soldered to the card they can't be wired wrong. Something's fishy... so where is port 4 that's normally on red/or?

fonegal are trying these cards on a MICS and using the same the VRAM cartridge... if yes there is something wrong in the configuration programming and the error is following you to each KSU

 

[Sphoneman]

Fonegal,

Do you have the lot# & date of mfg. so that we can have a heads up to confirm in the future, if we get bad ones?

Most times one person that working, performing a task wrong-does it a bunch of times until it is caught by QA or OBF's.

I always tell my techs "BASICS,BASCIS,BASCIS" it never fails that we are always looking at ourselves when we have problems, the mfg's never do that kind of thing.

I have found bad/wrong punch downs, wrong wired amphenols, but this one is a classic.



We end up driving ourselves crazy & it ends up being something someone else did.


Steve
tele-dataservices.com

 

[jerryreeve]

Curly, did you try a different amp connector while testing also?

JerryReeve
Communications Systems Int'l
com-sys.com

 

[telemarv]

That's my other thought... using the same incorrectly wired amphenol each time

 

[curlycord]

Well it's fonegal with the problem but good thinking on the amp peeps because I had the same problem twice in 20 years and both times was in the red field inside the connector.....sometimes people trust the wiring too much and that can cost you!.