At the bottom right and left are two metal posts that are the
tip and ring terminals.
You can attach a butt test set to these terminals.
Outputs
Connecting a Fluke 87 V DMM to the Sidekick (red to red, black to black) to measure the output signals.
Switch
ACV
DCV
OFF
0
0
AC Volts x2
0
0
DC Volts
0
0
Stress Test
0
0
Leakage/Rx10k 0
133.2
Rx1k
0
9.39
Rx1
0
1.004
Coil Detect 1
1
0
Loop Current
431 Ohm load
PWR Influence
600 Ohm load
CKT Noise
600 Ohm load
Ckt Loss
600 Ohm load Note1: frequency sweep 1 VAC, 25 Hz to 20,000 Hz. Takes about 15 seconds per sweep but only a small part of the sweep is can be heard. It takes one sweep per load coil so can take up to 4 sweeps.
Line
Using a 5/32" hex Allen wrench plugged into the ground socket of a 120 VAC outlet for the ground and an adapter cable with RJ-11 on one end and alligator clips on the other plugged into my DSL phone jack some tests can be run. But these tests are done with telephones on the line.
Note: Rev in the up position is the Normal position as is Tip_ (down) and Ring_ (down).
Switch
Tip _
Ring_
(tip to ring)
Tip Up
(tip to Gnd)
Ring Up
(Ring to Gnd)
AC Volts x2
0
0
0
DC Volts
52
0
52
Stress Test
25
77
77
Leakage & R not done w/phones on line 4
na
na
na
Coil Detect 3
Loop Current
24
6
0
PWR Influence 2A
CKT Noise 2A
CKT Loss 2B
Note2: Requires dialing a CO phone number by connecting a butt set to the two terminals on the Sidekick.
After the connection is made the Sidekick disconnects the butt set prior to the actual test.
2A: quiet termination CO phone number
2B: 1004 Test Tone CO Phone number
Note3: Requires interpreting the dynamic swings of the needle
Note4: Note done now. But when done there are 6 measurements: Tip-Ring, Tip-Gnd, Ring-Gnd, Tip-Ring Reversed, Tip-Gnd Reversed, Ring-Gnd reversed.
US Patent #
Title
Date
Co.
Class
6263047
Apparatus and method for characterizing the loading pattern
of a Telecommunications Transmission Line <Coil Detect>
Jul 17, 2001 Tempo 379/31; 324/533; 379/10.01; 379/22.02; 379/27.02; 379/30 6559651 Method for locating an open in a conductive line of an insulated conductor May 6, 2003 -
324/522; 324/529; 324/543 5995588 Tone location device for locating faults in a paired line
Works with separate toner and loop receiver to locate fault.
Nov 30, 1999 -
379/22; 324/527; 324/528; 324/530; 379/22.03; 379/22.07; 379/29.05 D352912 Telecommunications line noise measurement device <Sidekick>
Nov 29, 1994 -
D10/78 5302905 Apparatus and method for detecting and isolating noise-creating imbalances in a paired telecommunications line <Leakage Test with 135 VDC>
Apr 12, 1994 Tempo
324/613; 324/523; 324/539 5157336 Noise measurement in a paired telecommunications line
<Stress Test for longitudinal balance>
Oct 20, 1992 Tempo
324/613; 324/512; 324/523; 324/612 4291204 Fault locating system for electric cables and the like Sep 22, 1981 -
324/456; 73/570; 324/529; 324/534; 324/536
I worked with the HP 4380S which was designed to measure all the possible parameters of 2 pair of CAT5 cable. There are 8 wire ends and the test set has 8 each 50 Ohm test ports. After an involved calibration all the S-Parameters are measured, then converted into Z-Parameters and then the desired cable specs are displayed in a graph. The Sidekick just looks for imbalances, but that's the key spec for phone use.
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