Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: decom@dgp.toronto.edu (Jonathan Haruni) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Melts; Almost Started Fire! Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 89 16:18:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Organization: University of Toronto Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 107, message 3 of 6 In article "John B. Nagle" writes: > NO WAY can you make wires glow red with any power level normally >applied to a phone line; not even with ringing power is there enough >energy to make that happen. Somehow, power line voltage is getting into... >[etc.] > John Nagle Any amount of power will make a thin enough wire glow red. And the tinsel-wrapped-around-nylon wires they're using in phone wires these days are about as thin as practically possible. However, it seems unlikely that the problem would be with too-thin wires. In all likeliness, you are right, and as you say, an electrician should look into it. (This problem was occuring at someone's workplace, right ?) Jon Haruni.