On 17/03/2021 02:19 pm, Biggles wrote:
On 14/03/2021 11:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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As it happens I know a bit about her wiring. Some years ago I installed
the cordless phones for her. As the cabled one was in the very cold
hallway. Put an extension BT socket in the lounge and also a mains socket
for the base station since there wasn't one handy. The second one went in
her bedroom, I was told. Left the original phone in the hall, still
working normally.

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I have a wired BT handset adjacent to my broadband router and cordless
phone base station. An Openreach engineer asked me why I had two
handsets next to each other. I explained that one would still work in a
power cut, he seemed surprised at the answer.

When I was a kid in Liverpool, we NEVER had power cuts unless I managed
to blow a domestic fuse (there was only one) whilst "messing about".

OK, we had a couple of denials of service during the strikes of 1970 and
1971, but they were caused by selective switching, not by system failure.

In a village in SE England, though, power cuts have been quite common. I
got the Parish Council to complain about it.

On 17/03/2021 14:19, Biggles wrote:
On 14/03/2021 11:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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As it happens I know a bit about her wiring. Some years ago I installed
the cordless phones for her. As the cabled one was in the very cold
hallway. Put an extension BT socket in the lounge and also a mains socket
for the base station since there wasn't one handy. The second one went in
her bedroom, I was told. Left the original phone in the hall, still
working normally.

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I have a wired BT handset adjacent to my broadband router and cordless
phone base station. An Openreach engineer asked me why I had two
handsets next to each other. I explained that one would still work in a
power cut, he seemed surprised at the answer.

A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that works
with no power.

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Max Demian

On 17/03/2021 17:21, Max Demian wrote:
On 17/03/2021 14:19, Biggles wrote:
On 14/03/2021 11:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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As it happens I know a bit about her wiring. Some years ago I installed
the cordless phones for her. As the cabled one was in the very cold
hallway. Put an extension BT socket in the lounge and also a mains
socket
for the base station since there wasn't one handy. The second one
went in
her bedroom, I was told. Left the original phone in the hall, still
working normally.

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I have a wired BT handset adjacent to my broadband router and cordless
phone base station. An Openreach engineer asked me why I had two
handsets next to each other. I explained that one would still work in
a power cut, he seemed surprised at the answer.

A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that works
with no power.

Such things do exist.

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On 17/03/2021 14:19, Biggles wrote:
On 14/03/2021 11:28, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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As it happens I know a bit about her wiring. Some years ago I installed
the cordless phones for her. As the cabled one was in the very cold
hallway. Put an extension BT socket in the lounge and also a mains
socket
for the base station since there wasn't one handy. The second one went
in
her bedroom, I was told. Left the original phone in the hall, still
working normally.

Snipped

I have a wired BT handset adjacent to my broadband router and cordless
phone base station. An Openreach engineer asked me why I had two handsets
next to each other. I explained that one would still work in a power cut,
he seemed surprised at the answer.

A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that works
with no power.

Never seen a single one like that.

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:16:57 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Never seen a single one like that.

Of COURSE not, you idiotic auto-contradicting senile pest! tsk

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"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)"
MID:

In article ,
Max Demian wrote:
A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that works
with no power.

You jest, I assume? Clutter the thing up with something you may never need?

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On 18/03/2021 01:05, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Max Demian wrote:
A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that works
with no power.

You jest, I assume? Clutter the thing up with something you may never need?


I have two keyboards on this PC. A USB one used all the time and
a PS/2 DEC LK466 one tucked behind the system unit in case there
is an issue with upgrades (it always works).

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article ,
Max Demian wrote:
A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that works
with no power.

You jest, I assume? Clutter the thing up with something you may never need?

It wouldn't take a lot to add a couple of contacts to the handset so it
works without using RF when resting on the base station. Although the
question then is what you can power from the line voltage and how you
arrange that, as there might not be enough for all the fancy displays etc.

Theo

In article ,
Theo wrote:
"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:
In article , Max
Demian wrote:
A sensible cordless base station would have a corded handset that
works with no power.

You jest, I assume? Clutter the thing up with something you may never
need?

It wouldn't take a lot to add a couple of contacts to the handset so it
works without using RF when resting on the base station. Although the
question then is what you can power from the line voltage and how you
arrange that, as there might not be enough for all the fancy displays
etc.

Be easier to simply add re-chargeable battery backup to the base station?
You wouldn't then have to find the instructions on how to use it in event
of a mains failure. It would be seamless. But a lot of extra cost for a
'just in case'

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