"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message ill.com...
On 19 Feb 2004 15:53:17 -0800, N. Thornton wrote:

The master socket contains a sense resistor, and the lines are
automatically monitored. If you remove the master socket a fault
condition will therefore be detected.

Always assuming that your line is on an automatic tester, not all are,
and that the tester just happens to test your line as it's
disconnected from the master socket. Even then it's not likely to
result in more than a few bytes of storage used in the testers log
file.

Here they sent an 'engineer' round when the master socket went o/c. I
didnt even know there was a problem. I think it was genuine as they
tested the sockets and replaced one.

Regards, NT