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- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Path: sparky!uunet!sybus.sybus.com!myrddin!tct!jtt
- From: jtt@tct.com (John Tombs)
- Subject: Re: Gateway Telepath Modem
- Message-ID: <2A703892.8809@tct.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:06:26 GMT
- References: <57a5NB1w165w@iowegia.uucp> <1992Jul18.205108.18916@wam.umd.edu> <1992Jul23.055446.24750@ssc.wa.com>
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Jul23.055446.24750@ssc.wa.com> tad@ssc.wa.com (Tad Cook) writes:
- >
- >What is NEUTRAL? Phone lines have a Tip lead and a Ring lead. Ring is
- >negative with respect to Tip. The line has 48 vdc on it when idle.
- >
- >What is this "voltage across neutral" that "the vast majority of home
- >lines" have?
- >
-
- I think he means common mode: a voltage (DC or AC) with respect to local
- ground which is _common_ to Tip and Ring.
-
- I measured a 60Hz 10V peak-to-peak common mode voltage across my phone
- lines the other day while trying to troubleshoot a modem - much larger
- than the audio signal.
-
- --
- John Tombs at Teltronics/TCT <jtt@tct.com>, <uunet!myrddin!tct!jtt>
- Real Modem Users Do It Internally.
-