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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 14731" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I can think of a couple of possibilities.</p><p></p><p>1) One place we lived in for a year, we didn't discover until husband was building a power board (you couldn't buy them back then) and discovered that t he electrician who owned the place (and did his own wiring) had got the main supply to one end of the house backwards - active and neutral were reversed. (We have three wires - active, neutral and earth). By reversing active and neutral you can be left with live circuits when they should be switched off and dead. Not good when you turn off the power to stick the fork in the toaster.</p><p>So - never COMPLETELY trust the wiring of a place that's been done by the owner, qualified or not. It's the plumber's house that leaks; the painter's house in need of painting and the electrician's house that sends up sparks.</p><p></p><p>2) You may have too many appliances connected to your phone lines. Sometimes, especially when the phone company makes changes to the local exchange (or you have a linesman working in the area) you can find this sort of thing happening; anything on the phone system only partly functions, in a 'brown-out' kind of way. Hence, slow fax, slow modem and weird phone behaviour. Or another possible cause - one of the phone appliances is drawing more power than it used to (intermittent fault). These may need to be individually checked. Remove them one at a time and test the function of the system each time you remove one. IE take out your modem - does the fax machine now work faster? Does the phone answer properly? Or take out the phone - can you fax faster now?</p><p></p><p>3) Are you near salt water? We have a problem with wiring suddenly causing problems. The wires themselves are OK, it's usually the connection points. An increase in corrosion leads to an increase in resistance and a drop in function of EVERYTHING. Sometimes just cleaning the contacts of the phone plugs with a Q-tip wrapped in sandpaper is enough. No matter how well a house was wired, near salt air this WILL happen. And the failure can be sudden, due to a sudden increase in resistance beyond a functional point.</p><p></p><p>The fogged screen on the copier had me wondering about moisture and corrosion.</p><p></p><p>I hope you can track it down.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 14731, member: 1991"] I can think of a couple of possibilities. 1) One place we lived in for a year, we didn't discover until husband was building a power board (you couldn't buy them back then) and discovered that t he electrician who owned the place (and did his own wiring) had got the main supply to one end of the house backwards - active and neutral were reversed. (We have three wires - active, neutral and earth). By reversing active and neutral you can be left with live circuits when they should be switched off and dead. Not good when you turn off the power to stick the fork in the toaster. So - never COMPLETELY trust the wiring of a place that's been done by the owner, qualified or not. It's the plumber's house that leaks; the painter's house in need of painting and the electrician's house that sends up sparks. 2) You may have too many appliances connected to your phone lines. Sometimes, especially when the phone company makes changes to the local exchange (or you have a linesman working in the area) you can find this sort of thing happening; anything on the phone system only partly functions, in a 'brown-out' kind of way. Hence, slow fax, slow modem and weird phone behaviour. Or another possible cause - one of the phone appliances is drawing more power than it used to (intermittent fault). These may need to be individually checked. Remove them one at a time and test the function of the system each time you remove one. IE take out your modem - does the fax machine now work faster? Does the phone answer properly? Or take out the phone - can you fax faster now? 3) Are you near salt water? We have a problem with wiring suddenly causing problems. The wires themselves are OK, it's usually the connection points. An increase in corrosion leads to an increase in resistance and a drop in function of EVERYTHING. Sometimes just cleaning the contacts of the phone plugs with a Q-tip wrapped in sandpaper is enough. No matter how well a house was wired, near salt air this WILL happen. And the failure can be sudden, due to a sudden increase in resistance beyond a functional point. The fogged screen on the copier had me wondering about moisture and corrosion. I hope you can track it down. Marg [/QUOTE]
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