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- From: FREYER@hauk.hsr.no (Ståle Freyer)
- Subject: Re: Mac to Phone connections...
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 08:51:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.043725.13428@u.washington.edu> wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis) writes:
- >From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
- >Subject: Re: Mac to Phone connections...
- >Date: 31 Aug 92 04:37:25 GMT
- >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...
- >
- >
- >--
- >email: wiml@u.washington.edu | Home: Seattle, Washington |
- > (William Lewis) | 47 41' 15" N 122 42' 58" W |
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-
- Why not try a well known principle, known as 'acoustic coupling'. Putting a
- speaker in front of the phone's microphone (you may isolate it from acoustic
- noise with som styrofoam) will give you a relative easy way to ensure
- correct impedance (volume control), does not violate any rules or laws (FCC
- or otherwise), does not alter the phone, gives you galvanic isolation (no
- risk of frying your Mac) and probably will it give you more than adequate
- sound quality.
-
- Give it a shot.
-
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