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    telecom

    Recently I got paid for some telecom board and I didn't even know that I had any.

    I'm guessing this was the board in the satellite receiver box I broke down. What else has telecom boards?

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    Good question I'll be waiting for the answer from more knowledgeable people.

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    no expert but, from what i understand, when i took in a load of comp boards, telecom is a board that is very heavliy populated with ic chips.
    i could be wrong thou.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brandon View Post
    no expert but, from what i understand, when i took in a load of comp boards, telecom is a board that is very heavliy populated with ic chips.
    i could be wrong thou.
    You are correct. Alot of military equipment has telecom boards. I just picked a load up today that has about 20lb of telecom boards in it. All military test equipment

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    How bout this one? I got a board that's about 12" long has a row of IC chips that at first looked like gold then I looked closer and looks like there is copper windings inside the chips.

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    Would need to see a pic but sounds more like mini transformers the ic chips. I found boards that sound like that in a older lcd monitor. threw it in the low grade but I could be wrong on yours happyscrapper.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Recently I got paid for some telecom board and I didn't even know that I had any.

    I'm guessing this was the board in the satellite receiver box I broke down. What else has telecom boards?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...ions_equipment

    I've also found them in cash registers

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scrapette View Post
    Recently I got paid for some telecom board and I didn't even know that I had any.

    I'm guessing this was the board in the satellite receiver box I broke down. What else has telecom boards?
    Here's a short description from one buyer: http://www.boardsort.com/telecom.html

    However, different buyers seem to have different requirements for what you need to remove to get the "telecom" grade. For instance, I pulled out some boards from network equipment. Those boards have blocks of female network jacks "wrapped" in steel. Another buyer told me I would only get telecom grade if I remove those.

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    Thanks for all the info

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    telecom boards can be found in digital phone systems. I'm talking about the large cabinets where the phone cords go in. Found a bunch of these. Some have more chips then others. Just depends on their brand. Some of the boards have gold fingers, gold pins, and a backplane board.

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