Re: Rabbits and phone cords

From: Joel M. Eichen (joeleichen_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 04:41:43 -0400

We had some captured German WWII field phones with the hand crank
....... (for rural applications).

If you held the contacts you felt the 45 volts ......

So you are saying only if someone rings that the current comes down
the line ... make sense!

I imagine that 9 v would dissipate too quickly across the length of
the line ....

THANKS,

JOEL

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:09:39 GMT, "Vaughn"
<vaughnsimonHATESSPAM@att.fake.net> wrote:

>
>"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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