Elk M1 Gold Phone Trouble

[snakevargas]

I shut off my living room breaker to do some receptical wiring, and the whole time the M1 Keypad is periodically beeping and announcing "Phone Trouble". Flip the breaker back on and the phone trouble goes away.
 
I have wired the M1 to the house's phone jacks in anticipation of connecting it to my Comcast voice, but there's currently no devices (phones or modem) plugged into the jacks. The phone demarcation box is completely unhooked. The living room branch circuit does not feed the M1 Gold or any attached security equipment. This is what baffles me -- the living room breaker should have absolutely nothing to do with the M1 Gold.
 
Is it possible the phone wiring is acting as an antenna, picking up stray 120 VAC noise and the M1G is interpreting it as a phone service? Is it a no-no to connect the M1G to phone wiring but not connect the wiring to a phone service?

 

[apostolakisl]

If your phone line is not connected to any phone service and the Elk is expecting that it is, then it should always be saying phone trouble.  So, you must have something plugged in to your house somewhere that is giving the elk the idea that it has a dial tone.  
 
I really doubt it is induced voltage from your regular AC power lines sitting next to phone lines.  Are you sure that you don't have something plugged in that is giving it a dial tone.  Maybe a magic jack, or an old VOIP modem that is getting shut off when you turn the breaker off.

 

[Del91574]

There could be voltage on the lines, and in the case of an older house, the telco guys used to install a small transformer to power the lights in the old princess phones...so it depends on the age of the house and what sort of items are intermingled with the phone wiring.
 
Keep in mind, just because there's no dial tone on the lines, it doesn't mean that voltage isn't there.
 
If the house is newer, there's another issue going on.