SsgKen
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I am on my second 12 phone main entrance box in my remote cabin. I was wired for 12 lines in case I wanted to put in a bed and breakfast or so they told me. I now wonder if they knew they would be out once or twice a year. Phone was installed in 1992 and by 1999 I was down to my last good input. 11 were nuked by lighting along with two computer modems, one laptop, and a dozen ten dollar phones. The ground was checked every time by Ma Bell but with 17,000 feet of buried line it must pick up enough lighting to defeat the grounding system. Three more phones were put in by neighbors but the closest one is still 3000 feet away. Its more now because the closest neighbor dropped his land line because they could not remember to unplug the phone.
QUESTION: Do the phone companies count on having a grounded phone every few hundred feet for a combination ground of sorts? Is there a realistic ground for this situation? By realistic I do not want to dig a trench around my house and bury 4/0 buss bar. Nor even at the old 80 cents a pound.
I am on my second 12 phone main entrance box in my remote cabin. I was wired for 12 lines in case I wanted to put in a bed and breakfast or so they told me. I now wonder if they knew they would be out once or twice a year. Phone was installed in 1992 and by 1999 I was down to my last good input. 11 were nuked by lighting along with two computer modems, one laptop, and a dozen ten dollar phones. The ground was checked every time by Ma Bell but with 17,000 feet of buried line it must pick up enough lighting to defeat the grounding system. Three more phones were put in by neighbors but the closest one is still 3000 feet away. Its more now because the closest neighbor dropped his land line because they could not remember to unplug the phone.
QUESTION: Do the phone companies count on having a grounded phone every few hundred feet for a combination ground of sorts? Is there a realistic ground for this situation? By realistic I do not want to dig a trench around my house and bury 4/0 buss bar. Nor even at the old 80 cents a pound.