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Finally got that stubborn old DSC panel in a 90s condo to talk to the monitoring station
Was at a retrofit in West Seattle, and the communicator kept failing its handshake. I swapped the RJ31X jack with a spare from my truck and the signal went green instantly. Anyone else have a go-to fix for finicky phone line connections on those legacy systems?
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baker.eva6mo ago
Oh man, that RJ31X jack is always the weak link. I've cleaned so many oxidized contacts with a pencil eraser as a last resort before a swap. Once found a spiderweb bridging the terminals in an old panel, that was a new one.
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phoenix1986mo ago
Remember finding a mouse nest in a junction box once.
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piper_smith6mo ago
A pencil eraser? That actually worked?
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