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[GeeMac]

A fellow mentioned to me that telephone lines into a home have 48 volts 24/7. I pay for the voltage on the line 24/7 as part of having the service, so it might be legal for me to tie into that 48 volts and push it through a battery charger as well.

Comments?

Yeah, my comment is "How Stupid are you?"

[wpowokal]

Prisoner number......

der telephone lines carry a voltage but verry little current...

Would you like to be responsable for some one not being able to call emergency services!!!!

This post needs blocking...

allan down under

[Capt Slog]

No it isn't legal.

At least not in the UK, where it is an offence to tamper with the lines or to connect anything that might cause disruption.

I know that people tried it many years ago in the UK in a time of power cuts caused by union disputes. I don't think the voltage is constant, I seem to remember it was different when the telephone rang (this was in the old "dial" days) and perhaps even went from DC to AC or the other way around.

You don't pay for the voltage on the line as part of the service, you only pay for the service.

This is going to get removed or locked.

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[ghurd]

The voltage is all over the place, depending on ringing, working, etc.

And if you draw more than a couple ma, the phone won't work.

And if they see a power loss (they will), they'll switch the phone off.

There are a ton of rules about phone lines.  If one rule is broken, the phone won't even work.

Plus it is illegal.