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- From: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth)
- Subject: Re: Phone line monitor
- In-Reply-To: bwrossma@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca's message of Wed, 11 Nov 1992 00:53:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <JON_SREE.92Nov11083351@world.std.com>
- Sender: jon_sree@world.std.com (Jon Sreekanth)
- Organization: The World
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- <1992Nov10.135145.6174@bnr.ca> <BxJ15D.6vK@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:33:51 GMT
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- In article <BxJ15D.6vK@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> bwrossma@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Brian Rossmajer) writes:
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- In article <1992Nov10.135145.6174@bnr.ca> mwandel@bnr.ca (Markus Wandel)
- asks for a phone line monitor. I`ve been comtemplating this myself
- for a while now. Couldn`t you just hook up an op-amp with the - input
- to the phone ground and battery ground and the tip to the + input of
- the op-amp. Then power an LED off the output of the amp. With a pot,
- If you want to minimize loading, put some precision resistors (say 1 Mohm)
- in a voltage divider across the phone line, and your op-amp goes between
- ground and tip div 2.
-
- This should be safe and easy, but I haven`t built it and I haven`t done
- the calculations. Has anyone tried it or know immediately why it wouldn`t
- work?
-
- A little more division would be nicer. The limit is set by the op amp
- input voltage (diff/common mode) limits. Assume this is 15V, a common
- number, and phone line voltages can be about 250 - 300V, a good
- division would be 22M / 1M. You could use a JFET input opamp like
- the LF347 to avoid loading down the divider.
-
- / Jon Sreekanth
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