I can't offer any additional comments regarding the actual quan of
elections you can capture:>:

But, Maxim has a ready to go power supply that is designed specifically for
this purpose and there is lots of tech-talk in the Ap Note regarding the
phone lines.

I don't remember the name of the Ap Note, but you should be able to find it
easily. I think they were talking about some real power and the power
supply did the conversion to a lower voltage at the same time.

Good Luck.

Art



At 10:54 AM 9/17/03 -0500, you wrote:
>At 03:50 AM 9/18/2003 +1200, Russell McMahon wrote:
>
> >> >> Does anyone have any idea how much power you could tap from
> >> >> the line without causing it to go off hook?
> >> >
> >> >The phone companies have some definite ideas about this :-)
> >>
> >> 3ma is allowed.
> >> in the real world, your on-hook voltage can be as low as 12v, though this
> >would be a rare case.
> >
> >
> >I'm not saying that that isn't true.
> >I've been out of the formal telcom field for a decade or so now.
>
>garrgh...
>my brain said 3ua, and my fingers said 3ma....
>
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