Evening Deborah,
At 06:06 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote:
Phone-Col MicroGenerator, has anyone ever heard of useing a phone
jack to make cs?...debbie
Whatever gave you such a far out idea? Are they selling these now?
Yes, I found the sites. They look very cheap, too cheap.
I have mentioned these a few times over the years and the main reply
and comment was that the phone company will get upset and they may be
illegal devices. Possibly so, but the odds of anyone having a
problem is a few million to one, if not more.
I have a few decent pictures I have never put on my website until tonight.
Here are 4 or 5 pictures.
http://www.fugitt.com/files/phonegen/
I have a lousy hand made drawing that shows either the schematic or a
pictorial. The connection is relatively simple.
Parts list below....
1 LED
1 resistor for the LED
1 resistor to limit the current to the electrodes
1 full wave bridge
1 Surface Mount phone terminal block
2 alligator clips
Short length of 2 conductor wire. ( not very large, 22 or 20 ga max )
Use high quality alligator clips, one with a Black Insulator and one
Red Insulator
These are a bit tricky to assemble and require good mechanics,
especially the LED, resistors, and the full wave bridge.
Why do we need a full wave bridge? Two reasons,
The LED is polarity sensitive.
Often the phone lines have reversed polarity, for any one of a dozen
reasons, none justified. If this is the case, the LED will be
Reverse biased instead of forward biases. It will block instead of conduct.
I made some neat printed labels for covert reasons.
1. Phone Line Tester
2. Instructions for Testing ( One the back of the unit )
I wanted to know if any security checks would allow or disallow the
passage. A few years ago, maybe....... today I doubt it.
The unit does in fact work as a phone line tester of sorts.
It also tells me when to reject the water as being too conductive.
I hate to tell the cost of this unit, ....... well under $ 10.00,
closer to 5 or 6 depending on the source.
Typically they deliver near twice the voltage as the 3 NINE's unit
which is 27 VDC.
Wayne
