OK Wayne! I stand corrected. I have never heard of this application before therefore it was suspect in my mind. Sorry if I came off as a know it all. My POTS experience as a lineman was many years ago.
So the ringing current reads 52 volts AC?. My corded phone now says 48 volts from the line. Depending on your return connection the ringing current can and will give you a shock. There is a true story of a country woman that answered her phone when the dog barked because the phone never rang. She had attached the dogs chain to the ground rod and the current went thru the dog causing him to bark. When you go off hook all you are doing is providing a ground or return to existing voltage on the line. It makes sense that the generator would not pull as much current as a ringer until the solutions conductivity became much higher. I wonder what the REN access code would be for a generator?. Love Bob Adageyudi Staya Udanvti ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne Fugitt To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 9:32 PM Subject: Re: CS>using a phone jack?? Evening Bob, >> 06:30 PM 9/13/2006, you wrote: I would be very leery and careful of using phone company voltage to make CS. The US 'ringing current' voltage is around 110 volts alternating DC with almost unlimited current carrying capability. It may in fact be pulsating DC but it reads nicely on an AC meter. I disagree on the "Unlimited Current". I have worked with many leased lines over the years, even the old relay type circuits, including many alarm monitoring circuits. Often the phone company would reroute circuits and the added 22 or 24 ga wire would cause my circuits to fail completely. In some cases, I had to call the phone company and try to get these circuits back into operation, as they had worked for many years. Often these were Fire Alarm monitoring circuits which must be maintained with little down time. Also if you load down the phone company lines they may shut you off permanently. I agree that is a true statement, with a few if's and conditions involved. Typically, other devices we add to our phone systems use more current than the CS generator. That is, unless someone leaves the project unattended and the current runs away in value. Since these very simple generators are totally manual, one should know how long the batch needs to run and the current draw, relative to time. In reality, all one does is make his phone line inoperative for a time. I believe the phone line goes into the "Off Hook" mode when using the CS generator. If you get a phone call or make one, ....... this time must be subtracted from the batch time. On second thought, it does not go into the "Off Hook" mode or the 52 Volts would change to a much lower value, maybe 5 to 7 VDC. So, the CS generator does not load the line as much as you picking up the phone to make a call. This makes me wonder if all the ideas about a CS generator doing things to a phone line, or even attracting the phone company is justified. I have been using this type generator for a few years with zero problems. Wayne
