----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Broaband Question


> Andrew Smith wrote:
>> Though one of the earlier posts in this thread seemed to imply that
>> microfilters have their own ring capacitor built in? If this is true
>> you wouldn't need the third wire.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm if they do?
>>
> They do.  And as you *have* to have a mcrofilter between the "line" and 
> the "phone", then line 3 is 100% redundant.
> (all my phones ring just dandy, and there is *no* line 3 running around my 
> house)
>

Do you have a filter on each secondary socket? Our installation has an NTE5 
faceplate on the master socket, which includes the filter. If I remove line 
3, the phones don't ring.
-- 
Iain 


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