telecom

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

Originally Posted by brandon

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

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.

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.

Originally Posted by Scrapette

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

Originally Posted by Scrapette

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.

Thanks for all the info

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.