Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Using "Free" telephone power Message-ID: <864@mks.UUCP> Date: 1 May 89 22:16:31 GMT References: <636@serene.UUCP> Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont. Lines: 14 In article <636@serene.UUCP>, gbell@pnet12.cts.com (Greg Bell) writes: " I'm still amazed at how phones run entirely off the phone line power. " Can anybody offer insite on the secrets of running audio amps and chips off " the meagre phone line power? How 'bout the ammount of current the phone line " can source? You'd probably get lots of info on stuff like that by posting to comp.dcom.telecom if you can. They discuss all kinds of telephone things there. -- Gerry Wheeler Phone: (519)884-2251 Mortice Kern Systems Inc. UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!wheels 35 King St. North BIX: join mks Waterloo, Ontario N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043