Re: Rabbits and phone cords

From: Vaughn (vaughnsimonHATESSPAM_at_att.fake.net)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:09:39 GMT

"Joel M. Eichen" <joeleichen@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:78epk05ko2b9p1uu9rdburq789nteg7upb@4ax.com...
> I read on a website that the ringer was 9 v.

     Regardless of what you may have read on a web page: On a POTS line (Plain
Old Telephone System), the ring voltage is 105 VAC. If you happen to have your
hand on a phone wire when a ring comes down the line, it will jangle your teeth
(dental content). If you like, I will send you a ring generator so you can
measure it yourself and perhaps even cop a feel. Please return it when you are
done.

    Just to jog your memory, remember those old crank phone generators that they
used to sell for driving earthworms out of the ground? 100 VAC (depending on
how hard you crank). After a hundred years, those original phone standards are
finally in danger of extinction. What will kill them? IP protocol.

Vaughn

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