| ??? 10/17/07 19:23 Read: times |
#145861 - It's the key to understanding it Responding to: ???'s previous message |
If you try to grasp what's going on, it helps to know that the ring voltage is an large AC signal centered around the negative 48 volt "battery" that appears on the "on-hook" line. It's also not obvious to the casual observer that the "battery" voltage is negative with respect to nominal earth-GND.
It is, however, clamped to earth, though not necessarily at a point local to the point of observation. The result is that it can wander quite a bit from earth, but not beyond a certain point. RE |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| Telephone line voltages | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Beware! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| about that -48 volts ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| i did, OUCH | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| the key is to remember it\'s a current-loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The old stuff | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| OK... YOUR grandparents ... MY parents ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Great Stuff ! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pulse dialing | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not really surprising. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not necessarily | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Here, it detects both | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Pulse Dialling | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Current Loop | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Why is that the key?? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| It's the key to understanding it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sorry, but I cannot see the evidence | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Your circuit diagram shows it adequately | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| What do you intend to build? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
What I want to build | 01/01/70 00:00 |