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- From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Mac to Phone connections...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.043725.13428@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 04:37:25 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug31.043725.13428
- References: <1992Aug25.004143.18308@cis.ohio-state.edu> <1992Aug27.160630.615@fwi.uva.nl>
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- In article <1992Aug27.160630.615@fwi.uva.nl> aroest@fwi.uva.nl (Axello de Roestello) writes:
- >rubin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Daniel Rubin) writes:
- >
- >>Hi all... I want to connect my Mac to my phone. I am going to connect the
- >>speaker of the Mac to the mic of the phone and the speaker from the phone to
- >>the Mac's mic...
- >
- >>I know that the levels do not match. ...
- >
- >Don't do it!!!
- >Not only do the levels not match, the phone line can have 60 volts across its
- >wires and will fry your Mac when it is ringing.
-
- To me it looks like Daniel wants to connect his Mac speaker to the
- *phone handset* mike input, not directly to the line. In this case
- the phone probably provides all the isolation he needs, as well as the
- FCC-approved interface and hook switch and all thet cruft.
- The problem in this case is that the solution probably depends on
- the phone you're patching into and what kind of mike it uses.
- I don't know enough about current brands of phones to say if there's
- one overwhelmingly common circuit design (somehow I doubt carbon
- mikes are still in style) or if there's a way to connect to the phone
- circuit after the first stage of amplification, or whatever...
-
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