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Subject: Re: Remote power cycle 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 17:33:09 -0800
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>David Greenman wrote:
> 
>>    It was quite easy for me to do, but the level of difficulty will depend
>> on your ability to use a soldering iron and knowledge of electronics. What
>> I did was reconfigure the hook relay so that the switch simply shorts the
>> tip/ring wires rather than connect them to the isolation transformer. It
>
>Small advice on modems to use!
>
>Many of the newer modems do have 'solid state' switching and the tend to
>not work! Find modem with large relay on and you should just short the
>transformer at the line side.

   Hmmm...if these modems use a "solid state relay", then it should work.
In any case, I used a cheap 14.4K internal modem (I don't recall the
maker) that had a normal miniature relay.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project