Sticking it to the man - Lamp powered from a phone line

[gangals]

http://dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1161

[Mr.Cactus]

This reminds me of that one box were you could make hydrogen from your phone line.

[MattGSX]

This is a pretty cool idea. It reminds ME of the people that tried using their phone line to "bank" power to later be used, kind of like a battery. What are the regulations in place regarding stuff like this? Is there anything in place preventing people from marketing/developing household items powered off their phone line? If not, someone should develop an adapter so you can power MORE household appliances from their phone lines.

[Tachyon]

Isn't it like five volts or something, with almost no current though? Maybe if I got a super-efficient fridge and hijacked half the city's phone power I could run it for a while at least...

[gangals]

Isn't it like five volts or something

I've seen it range from 40-60V DC.

It's supposed to be 48V DC normally and 70-130V AC when it rings,

[Tachyon]

Oh damn I'm an idiot I must have been thinking amps (been a long time since I went poking around with the ol' multimeter).

[frog]

This is a pretty cool idea. It reminds ME of the people that tried using their phone line to "bank" power to later be used, kind of like a battery. What are the regulations in place regarding stuff like this? Is there anything in place preventing people from marketing/developing household items powered off their phone line? If not, someone should develop an adapter so you can power MORE household appliances from their phone lines.

Well. COs only pump out as much as a car battery. Assuming the voltage were transformed to ringback voltage, well, your phones would always ring. And think of the load that something bigger than a phone would put on the line.

[Raptor]

But what if you added MORE power into some unsuspecting persons phone line?

Since most people don't use rotary phones, what will happen to the Handset base?

or their COMPAQ with no 5 Cats

[mr_doc]

http://www.buanzo.com.ar/lit/dead2.html

Upon posting the reply, George logs off, eats a sandwich, and begins to wonder why nobody seems to like him. He decides that everyone besides him must be an idiot. He then begins to plot his revenge against SysOp.

George (singing):

- No one seems to like me,
And I really don't know why.
They all become so angry,
When I post message replies!

But none of all that matters,
I must devise a plan,
To format Sysop's hard drives,
And blow up his Novell LAN!

[ The dancers from the party sneak in through a window ]

Dancers:

- He'll blow up Sysop's LAN, he will,
He'll blow up Sysop's LAN!
He must devise a plan, he must,
To blow up Sysop's LAN!

George:

- I'll fry his modem's circuits,
With an electric tesla coil!
His EPROMs they will all explode,
His parity chips will boil!

Then I'll send a power spike,
Of at least five billion watts,
His CPU will be so fried,
He'll wind up going nuts!

Dancers:

- He'll send a power spike, he will,
Of at least five billion watts!
Sysop will not know what hit him,
He'll wind up going nuts!

George:

- And I will watch all this with glee,
And chuckle when I do it!
It will fill my heart with joy,
To watch it go KABLOOEY!

Dancers:

- KABLOOEY! KABLOEEY!
It will go KABLOOEY!

Cut to:
George in his bedroom, trying in vain to manufacture a tesla coil. So far, all he has managed to do is singe his fingers and make his hair stand on end. He's been working on it for about two hours now and is almost done.

He decides to take a break and harass Sysop some more.

Dear Sysop:

Idownloadeda file from your file areas yesterday [duh,where
the hell else would he get it?Stupid littleshit.]andithada
virusin it!I ran the file FUCKYOU.EXE in the .ZIP file and my hard
drive got formatted![HE'S LYING!HE DOESN'THAVEAHARDDRIVE!]
Maybe you should delete it.

 Sincerely,

Tunaman.

Dear Tunaidiot:

Ichecked the file areas and the only FUCKYOU.EXE that exists is
one you uploaded.The one you uploaded,I might add,toswayyour
upload download ratio so you can download more.You make me sick.

 Sysop.

It takes George three days to get the tesla coil working, but he finally does. After making the final preparations, he disconnects the mouthpiece on his phone so that only the bare wires are showing. He charges the tesla coil and calls Sysop's BBS number.

Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep. RIIIIIIIIING!

When he hears the carrier sound, he puts the bare wires up to the tesla coil.

There was a terrible, ghastly silence.

There was a terrible, ghastly noise.

George makes his hair stand on end again.

Far away, at Sysop's house, peripherals are melting.

Sysop's monitor explodes.

His RAM chips pop like Orville Redenbacher's best.

His modem makes one final SQUEAK and goes silent.

In short, everything goes KABLOOEY!

[Telcogal]

More stuff

http://www.sandman.com/telco.html

[gangals]

More stuff

http://www.sandman.com/telco.html

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[Raptor]

I just bought two. Great deal for only $4 with free shipping. Free electricity! Well, if they "disconnect" your phone line, is it also disconnected from the power?

[Raptor]

Well, it came. I used it for about 5 minutes on the phone line, and It worked. Then I tried it on another jack, and it wouldn't turn on. I then brought it back to the one that worked, and It seems to be shot. The 8 LED's Light up for about half a second after it's plugged in, then go out. I opened it up and stuck my multimeter in, to find that The LED's were in fact getting power, so maybe they were defective or something. This seems like something really hackable, Or even something you can make yourself at home. All thats in there is a relay for the battery compartment and switch, a Resistor and the Female end of the Power in plug. This leads to two wires heading up toward the LED strip, that contains 8 white LED's in a row.

You could make the power adapter really easily at home, Just take the center two pins of an RJ11 and attach them into a Plug of whatever size you want. I'm hoping to create a USB cellphone charger that plugs into RJ11.