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From: dr@skivs.UUCP (David Robins)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Using "Free" telephone power
Message-ID: <2829@skivs.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 17:29:50 GMT
References: <636@serene.UUCP>
Reply-To: dr@skivs.UUCP (David Robins)
Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, CA
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In article <636@serene.UUCP> gbell@pnet12.cts.com (Greg Bell) writes:
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>I'm still amazed at how phones run entirely off the phone line power.  They
>have lit dials, and audio amplifiers... and I had trouble lighting an LED!
>(trouble means the phone company equipment gets loaded down enough that it
>shuts off your line for a while!).  

I don't know how it is now, but the old Princess and other Bell System
phones had dials with incandescent bulbs, whcih were powered off AC by
a small wall transformer.  The power was carried throughout the house
phone wiring on the yellow/black pair (red/green reserved for signal).

However, my phone dialer IS powered by the phone line, but no light.


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