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- From: floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Gateway Telepath Modem
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.054056.27470@raven.alaska.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 05:40:56 GMT
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- In article <2A703892.8809@tct.com> jtt@tct.com (John Tombs) writes:
- >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.
-
- The reason telephone lines use twisted pair in a balanced configuration
- is to make common-mode voltage insignificant to the telephone circuit
- operation.
-
- It also happens to be fairly difficult to measure 60 Hz common
- mode voltage on a balanced pair without inducing 60 Hz common mode
- current! Here is one way to do it.
-
-
- T ------) (----+
- ) ( |
- A -+--) ( |
- | ( ---
- 1 to 4mfd --- ( | | 600 ohm
- 300 wvdc --- ( | | carbon
- non-polar. | ( | | resistor
- B -+--) ( ---
- ) ( |
- R ------) (----+
- \
- balanced transformer with a split primary
-
- Measure voltage at points A and/or B when points T and R are
- connected to the telephone line.
-
- Floyd
-