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The Phone Repair Company provides a glossary of terms related to the telecommunications industry.

• AWG = American Wire Gauge. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/AWG
•  Capacitance = A nonconductive property that permits the storage of energy supply or a device that stores an electric charge. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/capacitance )
•  Cross voltage = When a leak of current flows from one pair to a second pair.
•  Cross Ground = When either the tip or ring of one pair touch the tip side of a working pair.
•  Cross unbalance = When the tip or ring of a pair touch the tip or ring of a non-working pair.
•  Db = Decibels
  ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/decibels )
•  Earth Grounding = is the physical bonding of equipment by a conductor to the earth.(http://ask.reference.com/related/earth+ground )
•  Electrical Conductor = a material that offers low resistance to flow of an electrical signal. (Current) (http://ask.reference.com/web?q=electrical+conductor&qsrc=19&o=10616&l=dir
•  FED ll Dynatel = Far End Device
  (http://www.reeve.com/documents/965sdsp%20fed)
•  Grown Pair = When a Tip, ring, or a tip and ring touch ground wire touch ground.
•  nf = nanofarado or one thousandth of a microfarad (http://ask.reference.com/related/nanofarad )
•  Pf = picofarad or one millionth of a microfarad. (http://ask.reference.com/related/picofarad )
•  P/N = Power neutral
•  Pots = Plan old Telephone service.
•  Power section = A section of aluminum or copper cable sheath from Power neutral hook up to a 2ed power neutral hook up.
•  PSI = Pouns Per Squire Inch
•  Resistance = the property of any material to resist the flow of an electrical signal. (Current)
•  Ring Wire = the positive side on circuit
•  RFL = Resistive fault located a test done by a whetstone bridge called a varley.
•  Short = the leak of current between the tip and ring wire of the same pair...
•  SPD = Surge Protection device.
•  Tip Wire = negative side of the circuit of a pots line.
•  uf = Microfarad or one million of a farad

“There is no problem in any twisted copper cable that cannot be located in a timely manner and a solution found for the repair of such problem” - John “Jake “Jacobsen