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- From: garyg@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Gary Gendel)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Soundblaster voicemail help needed
- Date: 20 Nov 1992 13:45:55 GMT
- Organization: Mentor Graphics, IC Group
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- I would be more concerned with destroying your sound card, than getting in trouble
- with the phone company. There can be a significant voltage spike on the phone line
- during a lightning storm, and the ringing voltage can go up to 100 volts. I suggest
- that you use a small (inexpensive) isolation transformer, and a varistor on the sound
- card side to squelch the transients. This is the typical way devices like modems are
- designed. There are a number of good books on telephone line interfacing which will
- define the on-hook and off-hook line conditioning. I wish I could be of more help
- but it has been 12 years since I did modem designs for a living. Incidentally, the
- FCC had a spec which required the attached equiptment to withstand 10,000 volt spikes
- (of short duration).
-
- Gary Gendel
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