User`s guide

Safety Statements
Chapter 13 Reference and Certifications 113
PortServer TS 1/3 M MEI
To avoid contact with electrical current:
• Never install electrical wiring during an electrical storm.
• Never install telephone jacks in wet locations unless that jack is
specifically designed for wet locations.
• Use caution when installing or modifying telephone lines.
• Use a screwdriver and other tools with insulated handles.
• You and those around you should wear safety glasses or goggles.
• Do not place telephone wiring or connections in any conduit, outlet or
junction box containing electrical wiring.
• Installation of inside wire may bring you close to electrical wire, conduit,
terminals and other electrical facilities. Extreme caution must be used to
avoid electrical shock from such facilities. You must avoid contact with
all such facilities.
• Telephone wiring must be at least 6 feet from bare power wiring or
lightning rods and associated wires, and at least 6 inches from other
wire (antenna wires, doorbell wires, wires from transformers to neon
signs), steam or hot water pipes, and heating ducts.
• Before working with existing inside wiring, check all electrical outlets for
a square telephone dial light transformer and unplug it from the
electrical outlet. Failure to unplug all telephone transformers can cause
electrical shock.
• Do not place a jack where it would allow a person to use the telephone
while in a bathtub, shower, swimming pool, or similar hazardous
location.
• Protectors and grounding wire placed by the service provider must not
be connected to, removed, or modified by the customer.
Do not work on your telephone wiring if you wear a
pacemaker. Telephone lines carry electrical current.
Do not touch uninsulated telephone wiring if lightning is
likely!
External Wiring
Any external communications wiring you may install needs to
be constructed to all relevant electrical codes. In the United
States this is the National Electrical Code Article 800.
Contact a licensed electrician for details.