Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!software.mitel.com!grayt
From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Part number identification, from Popular Electronics
Keywords: SK2086, phones
Message-ID: <8053@nst>
Date: 27 May 91 20:52:43 GMT
References: <1081@eplunix.UUCP>
Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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In article <1081@eplunix.UUCP> raoul@eplunix.UUCP (Nico Garcia) writes:
:There's a design for a multiple line use detector in a recent issue
:of Popular Electronics: page 21 of the July issue. Unfortunately,
:
:Of course, the designer of this circuit could be using an office
:system, which doesn't care if you draw a little bit of DC: but then
:it's not very useful for hooking up to Bell systems, is it? 

Draw less than 4mA from the loop and you will not have any 
problems.